is presented Devuan 4.0 “Chimaera distribution”, forka Debian GNU / Linux supplied without system manager SystemD. The new branch is notable for the transition to the Debian base of Debian 11 “Bullseye”. To download Prepared Live – Cars and installation ISO images For architectures AMD64, I386, Armel, ArmHF, ARM64 and PPC64EL.
During the project, branches of about 400 Debian packages are created, which are modified to get rid of bindings to SystemD, rebranding or adaptation for the Devuan infrastructure features. Two Packages (Devuan-BaseConf, Jenkins-Debian-Glue-Buildenv-Devuan)
There are only in Devuan and are associated with the configuration of the repositories and the work of the assembly system. The rest of the Devuan is fully compatible with Debian and can be used as a basis for creating specialized Debian assemblies without SYSTEMD. Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the repository Packages.Devuan.org .
Default Desktop is based on the XFCE and the SLIM display manager. Optionally available for installing KDE, MATE, CINNAMON, LXQT and LXDE. Instead of SystemD, a classic initialization system is supplied sysvinit , as well as optional openrc and runit . It is possible to work without D-BUS, which allows you to create minimalist working configurations Tables based on BlackBox window managers, FluxBox, FVWM, FVWM-Crystal and OpenBox. To configure the network, a NetworkManager configurator version is proposed that is not tied to SystemD. Instead of SYSTEMD-UDEV, Eudev is involved, fork UDEV from the Gentoo project. To manage user sessions in XFCE and MATE, Consolekit is used, and the other desktops use ELOGIND, the Logind version that is not tied to SystemD.
Changes , specific for Devuan 3.1:
- transition to the Debian 11 batch base (packets are synchronized with Debian 11.1) and the Linux 5.10 kernel.
- The choice is given the opportunity to use Sysvinit initialization systems, runit and OpenRC .
- Added a new design of the design for bootable screensaver, input manager and desktop.
- supported support for display managers GDM3 and SDDM, in addition to
Slim. - is provided with the ability to use without SystemD all user environments available in Debian. Added support LXDE.
- For people with vision problems, the possibility of voice accompaniment of the installation process is provided and supported support for the braille-based displays.