Devuan

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.

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)

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History
Packages
Derivatives
Version history
Notes
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==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.