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Devuan.org announces:
Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like "DevOne" in English.
[...]is it really a fork?
This is just the start of a process, as bold as it sounds to call it a fork of Debian.
[...]Devuan aims to be a base distribution whose mission is protect the freedom of its community of users and developers. Its priority is to enable diversity, interoperability and backward compatibility for existing Debian users and downstream distributions willing to preserve Init freedom.
Devuan will derive its own installer and package repositories from Debian, modifying them where necessary, with the first goal of removing systemd, still inheriting the Debian development workflow while continuing it on a different path: free from bloat as a minimalist base distro should be. Our objective for the spring of 2015 is that users will be able to switch from Debian 7 to Devuan 1 smoothly, as if they would dist-upgrade to Jessie, and start using our package repositories.
Devuan will make an effort to rebuild an infrastructure similar to Debian, but will also take the opportunity to innovate some of its practices. Devuan developers look at this project as a fresh new start for a community of interested people and do not intend to enforce the vexation hierarchy and bureaucracy beyond real cases of emergency. We are well conscious this is possible for us mostly because of starting small again; we will do our best to not repeat the same mistakes and we welcome all Debian Developers willing to join us on this route.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Horse With Stripes on Friday November 28 2014, @03:07PM
Here's what I get when I try to visit their donation page [devuan.org] using Chrome:
Phishing attack ahead
Attackers on devuan.org might try to trick you to steal your information (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).
Google Safe Browsing recently detected phishing on devuan.org. Phishing sites pretend to be other websites to trick you.
If you understand the risks to your security, you may visit this infected site.
Hmm ... I wonder what that's about?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Nerdfest on Friday November 28 2014, @04:58PM
Someone reported them as a phishing site most likely. I can think of a few likely suspects.
(Score: 1) by dlb on Friday November 28 2014, @05:03PM
Further, the devuan.org site looks cheezy. Like some Nigerian prince made it. Whether con artists or rank amateurs, something there's not right....
(Score: 2, Informative) by Nuke on Friday November 28 2014, @05:28PM
I have had that with some areas of the Debian site itself. I click through the warnings, adding the exception.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 29 2014, @03:45AM
I just donated, and received the confirmation email from Paypal. It is legit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 29 2014, @10:07AM
Paypal. It is legit.
Why do I have hard time believing this AC?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 29 2014, @09:33PM
Original AC here. Firefox does not issue the error for me, and I received multiple confirmation messages from Paypal. The confirmation messages came from the same originating address from which I have received confirmations for donations to other sites.