Devuan 3.1 Released - Debian Fork Now Offers Runit Plus Sysvinit, OpenRC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Devuan 3.1 Released - Debian Fork Now Offers Runit Plus Sysvinit, OpenRC

It's already been six years since the initial pre-alpha release of Devuan, the fork of Debian that aims to provide Debian without systemd and focus on init system independence. For marking the Valentine's Day occasion, developers released Devuan 3.1...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Devuan-3.1-Released

[caligula]

Sounds great. What's next on the plate? 32-bit kernel, MBR partition layout, and x87 maths by default?

[Danielsan]

Nope, the next is s6-linux-init a modern, light and innovative init system.

[Karl Napf]

Nope, the next is s6-linux-init a modern, light and innovative init system.

And as usual devuan will have that just acouple of month after debian has shipped that.

It just takes that long to switch out the theming packages. All the other packages are getting redirected straight to debian mirrors anyway.

[stefansaraev]

but we already have all that in debian, so whats the news here. a clickbait story to attract systemd haters?

[bison]

Nope, the next is s6-linux-init a modern, light and innovative init system.

I've tried s6 on Artix, and it seems to work OK, but... does it have any advantages over OpenRC or runit?

[discordian]

What about init-freedom? There is no systemd in Devuan?

[Palu Macil]

Goodness! 6 years?? Where did the time go? I thought this was started only two years ago max

[iamjustalittlefox]

Debian is a disgrace and should be renamed to Systemdian or whatever they want to and Devuan renamed back to Debian this goes for all their domains and everything.
Ian murdock is long rotting in grave, he obviously put his distro in the hands of brainless idiots who did not know what they are doing.

rm -rf debian
mv devuan debian
chattr +i debian

[Danielsan]

I've tried s6 on Artix, and it seems to work OK, but... does it have any advantages over OpenRC or runit?

You can read the creator's opinion here: https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6/why.html