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Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable Release Candidate

posted by martyb on Sunday April 23 2017, @08:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the find-those-bugs-now dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Devuan Jessie Announces Stable Release:

Our April 2017 gift to you is the long-awaited release of Devuan Jessie stable release candidate (1.0.0-RC). If all goes as planned, this will be our first Devuan stable release and our first long term support (LTS) release as well.

Two and a half years have passed since our initial Debianfork declaration (https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/) and not even one year since our first beta release (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/devuan-beta-release).

This Devuan Jessie release candidate is as close as we can get to a "long term support" universal base distribution free from systemd, in the original spirit of Debian.

The final Devuan Jessie release will follow shortly and then we will turn our attention to "Ascii", the current testing branch.

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, and for engaging in the process of making Devuan a useful and reliable base distro, as well as a pleasant, cooperative community.

Happy hacking ;^)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:23AM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 23 2017, @11:23AM (#498277) Homepage Journal

    I switched to Devuan on my laptop at their second *alpha* release, and never had a problem except when I added a third-party Debian repository by mistake. That was recoverable without a re-install.

    Shortly after, on my server, I copied the Debian installation into another partition, then upgraded the copy to Devuan. I had Debian to fall back to in case of trouble (dual boot), but I've never had to.

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:49PM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Sunday April 23 2017, @01:49PM (#498324)

    Agreed, I was an early adopter as well, and the only time I've had issues was when I screwed up and got myself mixed up in a cross between ascii & ceres. So far it's really been the Debian I used to know & like.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hendrikboom on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:06PM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:06PM (#498397) Homepage Journal

      I had screwup between Devuan Jessie and a third-party repository for Debian testing (whatever they call it -- the one after Jessie) I ended up with aptitude having a huge number of unsatisfied dependencies -- hundreds of them

      Not good to mix distros. The problem originated with a third-party repository that contained some ocaml packages and others.

      None of those Debian testing packages were installed, and I managed to clean it out by purging aptitude and reinstalling. apt-get was never affected.