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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.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MadTinfoilHatter on Friday October 15 2021, @08:14AM (2 children)
Yes. Because it's still an abonination. :-)
Here is a pretty long but informative write-up of, both the kind-of-good ideas behind systemd, as well as why it ended up the way it did. systemd 10 years later; a historical and technical retrospective [darknedgy.net]
(Score: 1, Disagree) by shrewdsheep on Friday October 15 2021, @10:13AM
TLDR so maybe some of my points are not relevant. I believe it is important to distinguish concepts from implementation. A lot of criticism around systemd focusses on particular implementation. Conceptually at the time, it was very important to formalize and supervise the boot process. Also, performance improvements became important when a lot of daemons invaded the desktop. Finally, centralized logging is advantageous in many situations. Systemd ran fasted with these ideas (stealing from Mac among others) IIRC with alternatives coming in late. Systemd rightfully deserves crticism based on its architecture but which piece of software doesn't? It's a matter of fact that systemd has solved the mentioned problems to a satisfying degree and time has told. Making systemd more modular and configurable (e.g. format of logging files) is desirable and could be achieved within the systemd project. Or an alternative would come along, but it would have to be conceptually very similar.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 15 2021, @10:45AM
Uh, wow. I've seen and/or used more than half the inits mentioned. Seldom interacted with them, TBH, but now and then, one of them stood between me, and something I wanted to do. And, each time, I had to search for documentation to figure out how to do what I wanted. Mission accomplished, I forgot everything I knew about each of them. It's surprising to see how many of them I've poked at!
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