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Devuan 4.0: Chimaera Released!

posted by FatPhil on Friday October 15 2021, @05:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-I'm-still-on-2.0 dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/chimaera-release-announce-2021-10-14

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,

Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera
4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the result of lots of
painstaking work by the team and extensive testing by the wider Devuan
community.

What's new in Chimaera 4.0?

        * Based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10.
        * Your choice of init: sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC.
        * Improved desktop support - virtually all desktop environments available
            in Debian are now part of Devuan, systemd-free.
        * New boot, display manager and desktop theming.
        * Enhanced accessibility: installation via GUI or console can now be
            accomplished via software or hardware speech synthesis, or using a
            refreshable braille display, and Devuan Chimaera has the ability to
            install desktop environments without PulseAudio, allowing speech
            synthesis in both console and GUI sessions at the same time.

"without PulseAudio", eh? Speculations on the reason for that are welcome, he asked them knowingly... -- Ed.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday October 15 2021, @07:06AM (1 child)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Friday October 15 2021, @07:06AM (#1187223)

    Pulseaudio mostly introduces lag, bugs, permission problems and extreme complication to do anything simple that's a little bit out of the ordinary.

    Fun exercise: try to get two users to play sound simultaneously (or, for extra fun, try to get root and another user to play sound simultaneously) when the second user or root has logged in from another console (i.e. not sudo). Honestly, try it: you'll waste a few hours on that one if you don't know how to do it.

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday October 15 2021, @11:17PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 15 2021, @11:17PM (#1187403) Journal

    Yes, my experience with pulseaudio is that it is also a huge resource hog. How can it possibly need 150M of RAM, and over 50% CPU? Probably because it leaks memory like a holy FSM colander leaks water. Except the colander is supposed to. That's what pulseaudio will do on older computers. Makes them completely unusable.