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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: 3, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Friday November 28 2014, @04:32PM
Is this summary backwards, or something? The "headline" isn't much of a headline - if anything it'd be more at home at the end.
Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like "DevOne" in English.
Okay, that's nice and everything (although I'm not sure how a word can be said to be "spelled in Italian"), but the first order of business would seem to be telling us what Devuan is. Possibly even in the headline! Y'know, like, "Devuan announced - a new Debian fork"
[...]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.
So is it a fork of Debian, or what? You could have just stated that it is, instead of posting what looks like an out-of-context snippet from an FAQ...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1) by Nuke on Friday November 28 2014, @05:34PM
I guess it can only be called a fork when it works.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28 2014, @08:16PM
I was punchy and fixing to go to bed.
Could I have spent more time on this? Yeah.
Would it have been a whole lot better? Perhaps.
Would that alter the fact that this is a nascent project and it will be months before things gel? I don't think so.
Sorry to have ruined your whole day.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday November 28 2014, @11:21PM
Could I have spent more time on this? Yeah.
Would it have been a whole lot better? Perhaps.
Would that alter the fact that this is a nascent project and it will be months before things gel? I don't think so.
Would it could alter is someone's first impression of Soylent News.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 02 2014, @01:37AM
I was punchy and fixing to go to bed.
Dude... you should have gone to bed, and posted this later. It wasn't an emergency, honest.
Would that alter the fact that this is a nascent project and it will be months before things gel? I don't think so.
Irrelevant. If you are submitting a story, it's your job to submit a coherent and informative story. You could have done better than you did.
I have been following the whole systemd thing so I knew what this was. But you genuinely confused at least one person, who let you know about it.
Sorry to have ruined your whole day.
Learn to deal with criticism, especially reasonable commentary like GP.