Systemd-Free Devuan Announces Its First Stable Release Candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0 (devuan.org)

Long-time reader jaromil writes: Devuan 1.0.0-RC is announced, following its beta 2 release last year. The Debian fork that spawned over systemd controversy is reaching stability and plans long-term support. Devuan deploys an innovative continuous integration setup: with fallback on Debian packages, it overlays its own modifications and then uses the merged source repository to ship images for 11 ARM targets, a desktop and minimal live, vagrant and qemu virtual machines and the classic installer isos. The release announcement contains several links to projects that have already adopted this distribution as a base OS.
"Dear Init Freedom Lovers," begins the announcement, "Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!" It points out that Devuan "can be adopted as a flawless upgrade path from both Debian Wheezy and Jessie. This is a main goal for the Devuan Jessie stable release and has proven to be a very stable operation every time it has been performed. "

Comments

Re:Finally

[thegarbz]

If it was designed properly we wouldn't have to go to another distro.

There's nothing wrong with it for the 99.9% of users out there.

It's like saying if you don't like the radio go buy a different car.

Funny you should say that. The radio is one of the things I look at when choosing a car, and I have decided not to buy a car based on the features and functionality provided by the radio. And that's the real ticket here: Most people don't give a shit about their init system, just like most people don't give a shit about their car radio.

If it matters to you, chose the distro to suit you. If it doesn't matter than Debian should be no different to you now than it was 3 years ago.

Re: Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Debian voted for systemd, and then Ian committed suicide. Coincidence?