Systemd-Free Devuan 2.0 'ASCII' Officially Released (devuan.org)

"Dear Init Freedom Lovers..." begins the announcement at Devuan.org: We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is finally available. Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal, stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and promotes alternatives to systemd and its components.

Devuan 2.0 ASCII runs on several architectures. Installer CD and DVD ISOs, as well as desktop-live and minimal-live ISOs, are available for i386 and amd64. Ready-to-use images can be downloaded for a number of ARM platforms and SOCs, including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OrangePi, BananaPi, OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Nokia and Motorola mobile phones, and several Chromebooks, as well as for Virtualbox/QEMU/Vagrant. The Devuan 2.0 ASCII installer ISOs offer a variety of Desktop Environments including Xfce, KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQt, with others available post-install. The expert install mode now offers a choice of either SysVinit or OpenRC as init system...

We would like to thank the entire Devuan community for the continued support, feedback, and collaboration....
The release notes include information on Devuan's new network of package repository mirrors, and they're also touting their "direct and easy upgrade paths" from Devuan Jessie, Debian Jessie and Debian Stretch.

Comments

The Coveted Bruce Perens endosement :-)

[Bruce Perens]

I was the second Debian project leader. These days, I prefer to run Devuan, a true Debian derivative engineered the way I would probably have decided to make it. It's efficient and trouble-free. Thanks to the Devuan developers for all of the work!

Re: No one cares

[sjames]

Funny how people who support systemd are either blind or run a full memory purge after reading any story about systemd on /.. Good examples are all over the comments on /.. If you didn't see them, you're either new here or you pointedly missed them.

Re: No one cares

[phantomfive]

Funny how so many people claim systemd is a lousy architecture to build upon, yet never provide any evidence to support those claims

Nah, I did a fairly long analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of systemd in my journal. If you disagree, go ahead and tell me: it will increase my knowledge.

Re: No one cares

[lkcl]

https://ewontfix.com/14/ is a good article which goes into detail about why systemd is a bad architecture.

Re: No one cares

[phantomfive]

ls -lh /lib/systemd/systemd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.6M Feb 1 23:31 /lib/systemd/systemd

It's clearly not a lithe, slender little thing running as pid 1.

Re: No one cares

[jmccue]

I don't remember anyone forcing me to use a systemd distro.

Then I guess you do not work where I work

But with that said, to me systemd has been a big meh. Had no issues with it nor does it excite me. At home I run Slackware and I find a bit faster and easier to deal with than what I use at work and personally, prefer it over other distros.

BTW my work hardware is more beefed-up than I have at home, but none of the performance has to do with systemd but with background tasks I need to have running at work.

Re: No one cares

[drinkypoo]

Neither claim which is true. No logs have ever been dropped by systemd

Many people who have tried to troubleshoot early boot issues (mostly with RAID) disagree with you, including myself.

and the exit on failure is because the daemon fails after systemd did it's thing

*its

and people not fully understanding how asynchronous starting works.

Too bad they had to make it so complicated to understand. It just worked before.

More power to them!

[sombragris]

It's great to see a systemd-free distro making progress. Hope they keep releasing.

And remember, Slackware is the oldest GNU/Linux distro in active maintenance, and is also free of systemd. Even the development version (Slackware-current) has no systemd.