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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 ;^)
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Sunday April 23 2017, @02:07PM (1 child)
Devuan Jessie Announces Stable Release:
What??? Devuan has never done such a thing, and they aren't doing it now. They are announcing an RC--a release candidate that isn't a stable release, but a release candidate.
Even in TFS they say that "This Devuan Jessie release candidate is as close as we can get".
I'll take them at their word on that, usually not a good idea with Devuan [devuan.org] ("This distribution should be ready about the time Debian Jessie is ready" is one of the gems there--from 2014.)
I am not saying it will never happen. But I am pointing out that taking from 2014 to 2017 to get to RC is not great progress for something billed as drop-in replacement for (mature, stable, maintained) Debian.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:17AM
They were extra cautious in deciding when they would announce their official stable release, because they were expecting a *lot* of flack from systemd fans and promoters, who would pick any flaw and magnify it out of proportion. Devuan has behaved quite stably for a long time now.