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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: 2) by edIII on Monday October 18 2021, @07:01PM
To each his own I guess, but SystemD introduces a whole lot of bullshit that just isn't necessary. I'm looking for security first, so I can't find a whole lot of trust in SystemD at this time. Maybe in 20 years if the code base was thoroughly vetted, but I doubt that will happen and keep up with all the new code.
That's why I like OpenBSD, because of the philosophy, the relative security provided by the code.
It's not that I hate SystemD, it's that I can't trust it for mission critical systems, infrastructure, and security. For a desktop OS being protected by all of that? Maybe.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.