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systemd Free Linux Distro Devuan Releases Second Beta

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 03 2016, @07:54PM   
from the fight-fight-fight! dept.

"exec" writes:

Greybeard-built Debian fork bringing init freedom on track for early 2017 release

The self-proclaimed "Veteran Unix Admins" forking Debian in the name of init freedom have released Beta 2 of their "Devuan" Linux distribution.

Devuan came about after some users felt it had become too desktop-friendly. The change the greybeards objected to most was the decision to replace sysvinit init with systemd, a move felt to betray core Unix principles of user choice and keeping bloat to a bare minimum.

Supporters of init freedom also dispute assertions that systemd is in all ways superior to sysvinit init, arguing that Debian ignored viable alternatives like sinit, openrc, runit, s6 and shepherd. All are therefore included in Devuan.

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• Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i (Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:20PM

  by butthurt (6141) on Saturday December 03 2016, @09:20PM (#436643) Journal

  People have run AutoCAD under Wine, with varying results.

  https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=86 [winehq.org]
  https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-run-autocad-on-wine [techwalla.com]
  http://www.architectafrica.com/bin0/news200411111_wine.html [architectafrica.com]

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• Re:Not sure what desktop-friendly has to do with i (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:17AM

  by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:17AM (#437473) Journal

  "Varying degrees of success" is what I meant.

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