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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:36PM (#1187785)

    Frankly Pipewire is gross. It has no reason to exist except that Wayland, unlike X11, can't by default be remotely operated.

    So Pipewire has come about to allow network access of Wayland DEs.

    For audio, it would have been better if effort was focused on the software mixer in Alsa, and Jack for advanced needs.

    The only real "problem" with Alsa is the handling of transitory audio devices like Bluetooth and USB headphones.

    And that could be handled by software mixers that can reroute the audio as needed as devices show up and vanish.

    But as JWZ put it, CADT. Linux will never get anywhere without strong guidance because programmers will always want to work on something new if left alone.