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About Devuan 🔼

short intro

What is Devuan? 🔼

What it is 🔼

• operating system
• gnu+linux distribution
• fork of debian, without systemd
• free software
• everything else/goals

Devuan GNU+Linux is a free open-source operating system. It is essentially a fork of Debian without systemd.

Devuan GNU+Linux is a free open-source operating system (that has been) forked from Debian, essentially to provide Debian without systemd.

• explain GNU/Linux
• see https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch01s02.html.en

Meta distribution

• give short explanation of amprolla
• see:
• https://botbot.me/freenode/devuan/2016-05-07/?msg=65646427&page=4
• https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/amprolla

DocScrutinizer on packages:

• default package set, actively supported packages (those that are maintained by the distro)
• https://git.devuan.org/groups/devuan-packages
• compatible packages (all those from debian that don't depend on systemd, for devuan) (majority of packages in the devuan repos)
• a few packages that are explicitly non-supported and deprecated/restricted

What is aims to be 🔼

• what does it try to secure/preserve? (freedom of choiche, unix-adherence...)
• it tries to be a universal base distribution for ... (that need to be expressed in a comprehensive way!)
• what does the project encourage? (forking, blends etc.)
  • therefore: think before you install Devuan itself, there may be a Devuan-based distro that already suits your need pretty well (link to distributions based on Devuan)

Who created and who develops/maintains Devuan? 🔼

• link to History of Devuan for further info on how it came about

Notes 🔼

• as a project, as an OS

• What and why is Devuan GNU/Linux and what can it be used for?
• objections to "Devuan GNU+Linux is a free software operating system for your computer.": Being an operating system already defines it as being software and: if you are running and architecture that is not supported by Devuan, this OS is not (yet) for your computer. So "for your computer" is a little bit of unnecessary marketing speech and should be changed.

• mention:
• release branches
• Devuan code names
• release model

Available resources:

• https://devuan.org/
• https://devuan.org/os/
• https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/home
• https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/ProjectDescription (!)
• https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/guidelines

Free Software 🔼

• https://devuan.org/os/free-software
• https://www.debian.org/intro/free
• https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en
• https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html#Debian (In how far does that apply to Devuan?)
• 3. Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG)

Why Devuan? 🔼

• A comprehensive sort of in-depth article exlplaining why you would choose this distro
• except for the obvious, Why Debian? should apply
• considering http://troubleshooters.com/linux/void/whyvoid.htm might be helpful

Devuan constitution, Code of conduct (If these should exist) 🔼

See https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/DevuanConstitution for existing drafts

History of Devuan 🔼

  * see https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/
  * Devuan exodus declaration (2014)
  * include Devuan release history (something similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history, but more concise)