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Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward https://www.devuan.org/ at 2017-04-22 00:41:14
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Devuan Jessie announces Stable release:

Dear Init Freedom Lovers,

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

Our April 2017 gift to you is the long-awaited release of Devuan Jessie stable release candidate (1.0.0-RC). If all goes as planned, this will be our first Devuan stable release and our first long term support (LTS) release as well.

Two and a half years have passed since our initial Debianfork declaration (https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/) and not even one year since our first beta release (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/devuan-beta-release).

This Devuan Jessie release candidate is as close as we can get to a "long term support" universal base distribution free from systemd, in the original spirit of Debian.

The final Devuan Jessie release will follow shortly and then we will turn our attention to "Ascii", the current testing branch.

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, and for engaging in the process of making Devuan a useful and reliable base distro, as well as a pleasant, cooperative community.

# What has improved in Devuan Jessie

The wifi autodetection problems present in the beta release series have been fixed.

The problem that prevented samba from installing has been fixed.

Devuan now directly provides different base distribution flavours:
desktop-live (finally the purpy experience), embedded, minimal-live and installer-iso.

Devuan's Simple Distro Kit (SDK) is rapidly approaching maturity, with a full set of scripts and documentation to roll your own Devuan-based distro in any flavor. (https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=551)

The Refracta scripts are now included in Devuan, which makes it easy to toast a new live distro from the state of a running one.

Devuan's infrastructure is now powered by the 'debbugs' bug tracking system originally written by Ian Jackson, and the 'reportbug' tool works as expected.

Package maintenance has been demystified and partially automated with d1h - the Devuan packaging helper (https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549) - which simplifies the task of interacting with the Devuan continuous integration pipeline and makes it easier for developers to package their projects for Devuan correctly. Please consider rolling up your sleeves and joining the development team!

ARM support has improved: Devuan now provides base SD card images for 11 different hardware platforms: raspi1, raspi2, raspi3, chromeacer,
chromeveyron, cubieboard2, cubietruck, lime2, micro, N900, odroidxu. When applicable (sunxi boards) ARM images are powered by mainline 4.10.y Linux kernels.

# Downloads

Official Devuan images are distributed via the website (https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_rc/)

To ease the load on our bandwidth we kindly ask you to use one of the following mirrors:

- http://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan [leaseweb.com]
- http://devuan.ksx4system.net [ksx4system.net]
- http://tux.rainside.sk/devuan [rainside.sk]
- http://nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan [nluug.nl]
- http://devuan.c3l.lu [c3l.lu]
- http://neo900.files.dev-1.org [dev-1.org]
- http://devuan.4isp.it [4isp.it]
- http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/ [princeton.edu]
- http://devuan.mirror.k0nsl.org/ [k0nsl.org]
- ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan [leaseweb.com]
- ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan [nluug.nl]

All files offered for download come with their SHA256 hash to check the integrity (either in the SHA256SUMS or in the .sha files) and with a cryptographic signature made using GnuPG by one of the Devuan developers in charge of the build, included as .asc file.

An understanding of Devuan's script-friendly file naming scheme and directory structure will help you find what you need. (https://devuan.org/os/filenaming)

Our distrowatch page is on http://distrowatch.com/devuan [distrowatch.com] (and we are very proud of it! thanks Distrowatch for all the early support!)

# Init Freedom

Devuan is about choice. We think people should be able to choose whether to use a GNU+Linux system with or without systemd.

Devuan decided to fork not only the base distribution, but also its governance, because Debian has made it difficult to avoid systemd as init, entangling the system with unnecessary dependencies. We encourage potential Devuan users who wish to install systemd to use Debian's installer, Debian's packages and Debian's mailing lists, all available directly from Debian's mirrors.

Devuan is the Debian that was and could have been. Our goal is to provide a viable and sustainable alternative. It is a new path, nurtured with your help and support.

To support the Devuan project: https://devuan.org/donate [devuan.org]

happy hacking ;^)


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