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posted by LaminatorX on Friday November 28 2014, @01:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the and-so-it-begins dept.

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.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28 2014, @08:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28 2014, @08:13PM (#120937)

    Like Sly said "Different strokes for different folks".

    The crowd who came of age running Windoze and who just want to get into their GUIfied apps (and who will never config anything at the system level) may just continue to use Debian with systemd.

    Folks who liked Debian before systemd and who don't see a need for GNOME on their servers may find this fork to be the ticket.

    Perhaps there will be cross-pollination between the 2 projects and, with time, each will become ever better for its set of users.

    Extrapolating an incomplete/partially-tested one-size-fits-all approach across a broad base is what is at the heart of the current unrest.

    -- gewg_