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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) by VLM on Friday November 28 2014, @04:57PM
Didn't Ian (Murdock, not the jackass that was being an obstacle) say it was meant to give a more robust and stable linux distribution with strong review where it was lacking?
Maybe, but here's the original manifesto
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ap-manifesto.en.html [debian.org]
And it seems to boil down to grievances about post release support being non-existent, and distro makers ignoring the licenses of software, Also in the early 90s the commercial distros, what ones existed, were a bit sketchy.
Its funny reading him trash talk SLS, which I started using around Oct 1993. When SLS worked, it was OK, but it was fire and forget as Ian wrote, the idea of having a security infrastructure or packing smaller than a category "The X series of disks when untarred install xwindows, the C series of disks when untarred install GCC and all the fixings".
Around 97-ish I switched everything at home and work to Debian because of the DFSG solving all my at work software licensing problems and at home because why not?