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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @08:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 15 2021, @08:47AM (#1187237)

    SysVinit is old and creaky, and a new improved startup/init system is not a bad thing -- upstart, runit and openrc were/are all noble efforts to improve it.

    But, all the usual systemd whining and complaints aside, I believe systemd (and Chrome/Firefox/Webkit as well) represents a significant and unforgivable sin: the forcible usurping of FOSS by corporate, profit-driven interests from technical passion/elegance-driven interests (I call them 'old-school itch-scratchers' here.)

    Systemd is more than just a new startup/init system. It's nothing less than a needlessly comprehensive rewrite of the glue between the Linux kernel and userland, providing a full-employment program for a bunch of resume-burnishing for-profit developers and support-contract salesmen. Old-school itch-scratchers would *never* have attacked the startup/init problem in this way.

    The big boys (except for Google/Android) can't make Linux proprietary, so this is how they take control. IIRC the Pale Moon guy has basically gone on record saying that it's no longer possible for old-school itch-scratchers to build a new browser from the ground up due to the corporate-induced accelerating growth in the standard's size and complexity.

    I salute the Devuan itch-scratchers for their herculean efforts, but I'm certain they will falter once enough systemd-dependent features are infused through the Linux app ecosystem. Users like the new shiny and will never care what it looks like under the hood. Of course I hope I'm wrong about this prediction. [/rant]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @12:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 16 2021, @12:11PM (#1187476)
    If they make the standard too complex, throw away the standard entirely. That's what happened with HTML4 vs XHTML.