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Devuan 2.0.0 Released - Debian Without systemd

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @06:55PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @06:55PM (#691541)

    And quite frankly if firmware is the only non-free item they include, I would suggest they just provide two install cd images if needed. Personally though, we've lost the 'liberated hardware battle' at least on x86. Signed/Binary firmware is required top to bottom now, including reportable serials that can tie your software, hardware, MAC address, and network address together well enough to be (ab)used against you in a court of law. As much as I would like Devuan to avoid using non-free firmware, that would require a chain of current generation hardware that didn't require non-free firmware. And furthermore: The linux kernel had been including non-free firmware directly in the kernel source for years before the non-free firmware package was spun out completely, which is probably in part why they are having to include the non-free firmware drivers today. Linux has not had as clear of of a 'free software only' stance inside the kernel as it should have, and that in part is cause for this situation today.

    Anyway, cheers to devuan for succeeding in their 2.0 goal, and here is hoping they start using all devuan signed/hosted packages instead of falling back on debian fileservers for some of their file listings.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @09:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 11 2018, @09:13PM (#691612)

    The answer to non-free software is not more non-free software, regardless of how abysmal the current situation is.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:42PM (#692886)

    I really liked Trisquel as a concept but found that I just couldn't use it as my primary OS