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Devuan Progress Report Published

Posted by Soulskill on from the still-kicking-and-still-forking dept.

zdzichu writes: The group of anonymous Italians behind the recent Debian fork have published their first progress report. It covers a wide range of topics: the 4.5k€ of donations received so far, moving distro infrastructure from GitHub to GitLab, progress on LoginKit (which replaces systemd's logind), fraud accusations, logo discussions, and few more important points.

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  1. Nice progress! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Totally beyond my previously (already good) expectations :)
    They will have a future much more promising than those who are afraid of choice would say.

  2. Re:Forked the Debian? or the Debian? by kthreadd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Choice is not a matter of just pressing a button and have it magically appear. Someone has to actually maintain it. The Devuan developers think that they can do that. If so then that's great. It's sad that they don't think that they can do the same thing within Debian though I understand their reasoning. It takes a lot of time and effort to get into Debian and they want to be more pragmatic.

  3. Re:Why to develop anything? by Windowser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I picked my two: reliable and simple. That's why I picked Debian.

    I use Debian for the same reason

    See init get complicated in the name of a faster boot gives me heartburn.

    You need a system that boot fast when you reboot often. I don't care if my Linux system takes a couple seconds more to boot since I almost never reboot it.

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