Devuan
Sign in to saveDevuan is an open source, Debian-based Linux distribution that aims to maintain compatibility with other init systems and avoid lock-in by systemd. Devuan offers sysvinit, runit or OpenRC as alternatives to systemd.
Key facts
- OS.name
- Devuan
- OS.logo
- Devuan-logo.svg
- OS.logo size
- 250px
- OS.screenshot
- File:Devuan 5 Xfce LiveDVD uname+issue.png
- OS.caption
- Devuan with its default XFCE desktop running on a virtual machine (2023-08)
- OS.developer
- Veteran Unix Admins
- OS.working state
- Current
- OS.source_model
- Open source
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.package manager
- APT (dpkg)
- OS.supported_platforms
- i386, amd64, ARM, ppc64el
- OS.kernel_type
- Monolithic (Linux kernel)
- OS.userland
- GNU
- OS.ui
- Xfce
- OS.license
- Various open source licenses
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Q7715973
- Based on
- Q7715973
- Official website
- devuan.org
- Image
- Devuan screenshot XFCE4 terminal uname.png
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- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- Commons category
- Devuan
- public key fingerprint
- 6A27 69BF 7BE7 9F17 2569 6E0B 55C4 70D5 7732 684B
- software version identifier
- 6.1
- source code repository URL
- git.devuan.org
- package management system
- Q230724
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Packages
- Derivatives
- Version history
- Notes
- References
- External links
Devuan is an open source, Debian-based Linux distribution that aims to maintain compatibility with other init systems and avoid lock-in by systemd. Devuan offers sysvinit, runit or OpenRC as alternatives to systemd.
==History== With the release of Debian 8, some developers and users felt alienated due to the project's adoption of systemd and subsequent removal of support for other existing init systems. This decision prompted some Debian community members to start a fork of Debian without systemd.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Devuan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.