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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: 2) by CRCulver on Saturday November 29 2014, @11:47AM

    by CRCulver (4390) on Saturday November 29 2014, @11:47AM (#121074) Homepage
    Parallel booting isn't the only thing people want from a modern init system. Automatically restarting crashed daemons is another feature that Upstart and OpenRC offer.
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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday November 29 2014, @07:12PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 29 2014, @07:12PM (#121153) Journal

    Automatically restarting crashed daemons is a good idea...in a FEW use cases. Generally, however, that's not what you want. And making it a part of an init system seems brain-dead. It should be a settable parameter, and NOT a part of the init system, but of some later process.

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  • (Score: 1) by monster on Monday December 01 2014, @03:05PM

    by monster (1260) on Monday December 01 2014, @03:05PM (#121523) Journal

    As HiThere already states, it's ok for some cases, not always. Anyway, that's what watchdogs are for.