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posted by janrinok on Monday June 11 2018, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the systemd-free dept.

It's like Debian Linux, but without systemd.

Release notes are at https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ascii-stable-announce-060818.

Previously: Devuan ASCII Sprint -- 15-17 Dec. 2017


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Monday June 11 2018, @03:46PM (5 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday June 11 2018, @03:46PM (#691439)

    Is it possible to run a KDE desktop on it without systemd? I haven't been following the metasticization.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DECbot on Monday June 11 2018, @03:57PM (1 child)

    by DECbot (832) on Monday June 11 2018, @03:57PM (#691446) Journal

    I subscribe to Xfce and MATE desktop enviroments. My last foray into KDE was Slackware 13.37--so, I have no idea about anything current. Though you might be in luck. According to the Devuan website [devuan.org], the default is Xfce, but it can run Cinnamon, KDE, LXQt, and MATE without any special modification. Naturally, this is all without systemd.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:50PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:50PM (#692894)

      Yes, but it block systemd packages by default?

      no. ferk it. I'll just try it myself..

  • (Score: 2) by MadTinfoilHatter on Monday June 11 2018, @05:04PM

    by MadTinfoilHatter (4635) on Monday June 11 2018, @05:04PM (#691477)

    Yes. I've been running a machine with Devuan Ascii + KDE since the beta came out, and it works fine. I had to do some d*cking around with dbus/consolekit conf files in order to make reboot& shutdown work properly, though. Don't know if they've fixed that for the actual release.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Monday June 11 2018, @05:49PM (1 child)

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Monday June 11 2018, @05:49PM (#691506)
    Don't know about KDE 4+ but if you liked KDE 3.5 then you might consider the Trinity Desktop Environment, based on my personal experience it runs great on Devuan. I've been using TDE since KDE 4 came out and Devuan for the last 3 months (upgraded from Debian Wheezy finally),

    Live DVD of TDE on Devuan [exegnulinux.net] to try out the combo.

    Trinity Desktop Environment home page [trinitydesktop.org]

    Installation of TDE on a clean Devaun install was a piece of cake. The only issues I've run into so far were all because I did the "Base" install of TDE to keep the disk image small. I've had to manually add some things like ksnapshot and kmix that would have been part of a default install because of it.
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    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday June 11 2018, @11:37PM

      by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 11 2018, @11:37PM (#691663) Journal

      I liked KDE3.5 better than current KDEs. The problem is integration with other software, which works with current KDE, but didn't work when I tried Trinity. Since it used to work, my guess is the other software adapted itself to current KDE APIs. But it means that for me Trinity isn't a viable choice. (Mate, xfce, etc. do work, however. So the problem could have been with Trinity ... I tested this a couple of years ago, and they may well have fixed it.)

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