Devuan 3.0.0 Beaowulf installation
This time I want to show you Devuan, another Debian derivatives... or better, a Debian version without systemd, the software suite that provides an array of system components for Linux operating systems, released by Red Hat and adopted by Debian and many other distros.
The release of Debian 8 has made some developers and other users hostile due to the adoption of the systemd project. The first stable version of Devuan was released on May 25, 2017.
Devuan has its own package repository which mirrors the main Debian package, with local changes made only when necessary to allow the use of init systems other than systemd. Modified packages include PolicyKit and udisks.
Devuan uses the planets as the alias for the names of his versions. The first stable release shared the Debian 8 codename: Jessie. The third official version (in this video) is called Beowulf and was released on June 1, 2020.
As with Debian Sid, the permanent alias for the unstable Devuan branch is Ceres, the largest of the minor planets.
Official Devuan project's website - https://devuan.org/
Distrowatch - https://distrowatch.com/table.php?dis...
Distrotest - https://distrotest.net/Devuan
In my humble opinion:
if you want to learn and deepen research and solve problems, Devuan is for you;
if you want to use a distribution that includes all the software you need, for daily use, and without too many rules ... Debian and derivatives are for you.
I personally choose Debian, also because its community has recently favored the possibility of being able to change the init system with future releases, making the transition to Devuan useless. Personally I think that a software, to be free, must guarantee the choice of anything, starting from the init system. If Debian manages to decrease the dependencies of its packages from systemd in the future, welcome.
Personally, I find systemd handy if you want to analyze processes, but I admit that since it was introduced it seems to want to force processes, especially on old hardware like mine.
For now we just have to wait. I have been using Linux for over ten years, and Debian, like other distributions, have greatly improved in terms of hardware and software performance and support (without considering the various snapcraft and flatpaks).
I think I will make a video about installing old releases, to see they still work in 2020, just to make you realize the difference between yesterday and today.
See you next! ;)
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