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Devuan GNU+Linux

Last Update: 2019-04-11 06:22 UTC

Devuan GNU+Linux is a Linux distribution forked from Debian in 2015. The project's primary goal is to provide a variant of Debian without the complexities and dependencies of systemd, an init system and services manager originally developed by Red Hat and later adopted by most other Linux distributions. Devuan's initial beta release was made available in April 2016, together with an upgrade path from Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" and a possibility to switch to Devuan from Debian 8.0 "Jessie". The distribution adopted Xfce as its default desktop.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 49 (220), 6 months: 55 (200), 3 months: 64 (195), 4 weeks: 70 (195), 1 week: 60 (191)

Average visitor rating: 9.09/10 from 305 review(s).


Devuan Summary
Distribution Devuan GNU+Linux
Home Page https://devuan.org/
Mailing Lists https://devuan.org/os/community
User Forums https://dev1galaxy.org/
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://devuan.org/os/documentation/
Screenshots DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors https://files.devuan.org/ • LinuxTracker.org
Bug Tracker https://bugs.devuan.org/
Related Websites Friends of Devuan • Wikipedia
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Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases, download links and checksums:
 • 2018-06-09: Distribution Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0.0
 • 2018-05-10: Development Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0.0 RC
 • 2018-02-14: Development Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0.0 Beta
 • 2017-05-25: Distribution Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 1.0.0
 • 2017-05-05: Development Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 1.0.0 RC2
 • 2017-04-21: Development Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 1.0.0 RC
 • 2016-11-30: Development Release: Devuan GNU+Linux 1.0.0 Beta 2
 • More Devuan releases...

  Headlines:
 •2019-03-10 Devuan considers machine IDs
 •2019-02-28 Devuan conference planned
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  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
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Feature unstable
ceres		 testing
 2.0.0
ascii		 1.0.0
jessie
Release Date 2019-04-11 2019-04-11 2018-06-09 2017-05-25
End Of Life        
Price (US$) Free Free Free Free
Image Size (MB)     200-4500  
Free Download DEB DEB ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop Cinnamon, LXQt, KDE Plasma, MATE, Xfce Xfce Xfce Xfce
Package Management DEB DEB DEB DEB
Release Model Rolling Semi-Rolling Fixed Fixed
Office Suite GOffice, LibreOffice GOffice, LibreOffice LibreOffice GOffice, LibreOffice
Processor Architecture armhf, i386, x86_64 armhf, i386, x86_64 armhf, i386, x86_64 armhf, i386, x86_64
Init Software SysV SysV SysV SysV
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS ext3, ext4 Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS
Multilingual Yes Yes Yes Yes
Asian Language Support Yes Yes Yes Yes
Full Package List unstable testing 2.0.0 1.0.0
Package unstable
ceres		 testing
 2.0.0
ascii		 1.0.0
jessie
abiword (3.0.2) 3.0.2 3.0.2 -- 3.0.0
alsa-lib (1.1.9) 1.1.6 1.1.3 1.1.3 1.0.28
ati-driver (18.30) -- -- -- --
bash (5.0) 4.4.18 4.4 4.4 4.3
bind (9.15.0) 9.11.3 9.10.3-P4 9.10.3-P4 9.9.5
chromium (74.0.3729.157) 67.0.3396.62 62.0.3202.89 62.0.3202.89 57.0.2987.98
cups (2.2.11) 2.2.8 2.2.1 2.2.1 1.7.5
dhcp (4.4.1) 4.3.5 4.3.5 4.3.5 4.3.1
e2fsprogs (1.45.1) 1.44.2 1.43.4 1.43.4 1.42.12
firefox (66.0.5) 60.0.2 52.6.0 52.6.0 45.9.0
freetype (2.10.0) 2.8.1 2.6.3 2.6.3 2.5.2
gcc (9.1.0) 8.1.0 6.3.0 6.3.0 4.9.2
gimp (2.10.10) 2.10.2 2.8.18 2.8.18 2.8.14
glibc (2.29) 2.27 2.24 2.24 2.19
gnome-shell (3.32.2) 3.28.2 3.22.3 3.22.3 --
gnucash (3.5) 2.6.19 2.6.15 2.6.15 2.6.4
gnumeric (1.12.44) 1.12.39 1.12.32 -- 1.12.18
grub (2.02) 2.02 2.02beta3 2.02beta3 2.02beta2
gtk (3.24.8) 3.22.30 3.22.11 3.22.11 2.24.25
httpd (2.4.39) 2.4.33 2.4.25 2.4.25 2.4.10
inkscape (0.92.4) 0.92.3 0.92.1 0.92.1 0.48.5
k3b (19.04.1) 2.0.3a 2.0.3a 2.0.3a 2.0.2
kmod (26) 25 23 23 18
krita (4.1.8) 4.0.3 3.1.1 -- --
libreoffice (6.2.3) 6.0.5~rc1 5.2.7 5.2.7 4.3.3
linux (5.1.3) 4.16.12 4.9.82 4.9.82 3.16.43
Package unstable
ceres		 testing
 2.0.0
ascii		 1.0.0
jessie
lxpanel (0.10.0) 0.9.3 0.9.3 0.9.3 0.7.2
mariadb (10.3.14) 10.1.29 10.1.26 10.1.26 --
mate-desktop (1.22.0) 1.20.1 1.16.2 1.16.2 --
mesa (19.0.4) 18.0.5 13.0.6 13.0.6 10.3.2
mysql (8.0.16) 5.7.22 -- -- 5.5.55
nautilus (3.32.1) 3.26.3.1 3.22.3 3.22.3 3.14.1
NVIDIA (430.14) -- -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.6.1 3.5.2
openjdk (12.0.1) 8u171 8u151 8u151 7u111
openssh (8.0p1) 7.7p1 7.4p1 7.4p1 6.7p1
openssl (1.1.1b) 1.1.0h 1.1.0f 1.1.0f 1.0.1t
perl (5.28.2) 5.26.2 5.24.1 5.24.1 5.20.2
php (7.3.5) 7.2.4 7.0.27 7.0.27 5.6.30
plasma-desktop (5.15.5) 5.12.5 5.8.6 5.8.6 4.11.13
postfix (3.4.5) 3.3.0 3.1.8 3.1.8 2.11.3
postgresql (11.3) -- 9.6.7 9.6.7 9.4.11
Python (3.7.3) 3.7.0~b5 3.5.3 2.7.13 2.7.9
qt (5.12.3) 5.10.1 5.7.1 5.7.1 4.8.6
samba (4.10.3) 4.8.2 4.5.12 4.5.12 4.2.14
systemd (242) 238 232 -- --
thunderbird (60.7.0) 52.8.0 52.6.0 52.6.0 45.8.0
vim (8.1) 8.0 8.0 8.0 7.4
vlc (3.0.6) 3.0.3 2.2.7 2.2.7 2.2.5
xfdesktop (4.12.4) 4.12.4 4.12.3 4.12.3 4.10.2
xorg-server (1.20.4) 1.20.0 1.19.2 1.19.2 1.16.4

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Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-16
Votes: 6


 i was a debian user from the early days and switched to voidlinux lately because i felt unhappy with systemd.

devuan brings back all the good debian soul so i am back to debian-style administration. the switch went incredible well.

cons? devuan doesnt offer snapshot. that would really help me if that would be offered!



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Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-04
Votes: 25


 Upgraded Devuan ascii to beowulf and then to ceres with zero issues. Very straight forward and easy to do and yet zero issues, no errors and this happened the beginning of the year and still going strong...amazing!

Pros: Low on resources on both laptop and desktop with desktop only slightly higher @ 180mb @ login. Very impressed. Theming and icons are well suited but opted for what I like the best.
Very fluid behavior doesn't freeze or hang up. Responsive and so fast! Very active forum and the Dng mail list is beyond what another distribution can produce.

Cons: Should move away from Debian, have it's own kernel and not dependent!

Devuan has been steady as a beacon of stability, the more I read the more I understand the VUA's left Debian as the cream of the crop in development. It shows!


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Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-24
Votes: 13


 Using ceres with runit as PID 1,

It's stable,


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