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Almost a year and a half in the making, Devuan no longer is an Alpha-stage Linux distribution. A major site overhaul salutes the rollout of the first Beta release:
https://beta.devuan.org/
Here is an excerpt from an article from The Register on the release:
The effort to create a systemd-free Debian fork has borne fruit, with a beta of "Devuan Jessie" appearing in the wild.
Devuan came into being after a rebellion by a self-described "Veteran Unix Admin collective" argued that Debian had betrayed its roots and was becoming too desktop-oriented. The item to which they objected most vigorously was the inclusion of the systemd bootloader. The rebels therefore decided to fork Debian and "preserve Init freedom". The group renamed itself and its distribution "Devuan" and got [to] work, promising a fork that looked, felt, and quacked like Debian in all regards other than imposing systemd as the default Init option.
[...] Kudos, though, to the group for getting it out there! Now to see if there's really a groundswell of support for the cause of "Init freedom", as the greybeards name their cause.
The inclusion of systemd appears not to be holding rival Linux distros back: our review of Ubuntu 16.04 suggests it will be a speed bump for most users. Our Debian Jessie review said it slices a few seconds off boot times but is removable with little fuss for those who would prefer to go their own way at startup time. ®
How many people have been using this distro out of their worry over systemd's voracious appetite of everything standing between the kernel and the user? What are others using who share similar worries but have turned to other distros?
(Score: 5, Informative) by canopic jug on Friday April 29 2016, @05:18PM
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Kymation on Friday April 29 2016, @05:36PM
The torrent link in the parent is currently returning a 404 error. You can use the magnet link instead: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9b0fa597ab8bdd89a57434876947dbe378a79aad&dn=devuan_jessie_beta&tr=udp://tracker.dyne.org:6969
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday April 29 2016, @05:51PM
Link to torrent not working, getting a 404 as of this posting.
Even going to the downloads page and trying to get it from there I'm getting a 404.
The magnet link they provide should still work. Sadly I have not been able to get magnet links to work with my OS/torrent app combination so I will not be able to help them out by seeding it without a regular .torrent file.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday April 29 2016, @05:53PM
The torrent file the link points at is 404.
You can still get the .torrent file here;
https://files.devuan.org/ [devuan.org]
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday April 29 2016, @09:14PM
torrent works for me.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Friday April 29 2016, @09:01PM
I have absolute no intention of installing this, but I launched a torrent fetch and will seed that for a week or so.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes before my upload exceeds my download.
It took exactly 30 minutes for that to happen when I grabbed the torrent of the Raspberry Pi Jessie, (complete with systemd which has not caused me the slightest problem).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.