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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: 55 (201), 6 months: 57 (196), 3 months: 58 (192), 4 weeks: 57 (189), 1 week: 55 (184)

Average visitor rating: 9.08/10 from 308 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/
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Download Mirrors https://files.devuan.org/ •
Bug Tracker https://bugs.devuan.org/
Related Websites Friends of Devuan • Devuan Brazil • 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 (9.15.2) 9.11.3 9.10.3-P4 9.10.3-P4 9.9.5
chromium (75.0.3770.142) 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 (1.45.3) 1.44.2 1.43.4 1.43.4 1.42.12
firefox (68.0.1) 60.0.2 52.6.0 52.6.0 45.9.0
freetype (2.10.1) 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 (2.10.12) 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 (3.6) 2.6.19 2.6.15 2.6.15 2.6.4
gnumeric (1.12.45) 1.12.39 1.12.32 -- 1.12.18
grub (2.04) 2.02 2.02beta3 2.02beta3 2.02beta2
gtk (3.24.10) 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 (19.04.3) 2.0.3a 2.0.3a 2.0.3a 2.0.2
kmod (26) 25 23 23 18
krita (4.2.3) 4.0.3 3.1.1 -- --
libreoffice (6.2.5) 6.0.5~rc1 5.2.7 5.2.7 4.3.3
linux (5.2.1) 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 (10.4.6) 10.1.29 10.1.26 10.1.26 --
mate-desktop (1.22.1) 1.20.1 1.16.2 1.16.2 --
mesa (19.1.2) 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 (430.34) -- -- -- --
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 (1.1.1c) 1.1.0h 1.1.0f 1.1.0f 1.0.1t
perl (5.30.0) 5.26.2 5.24.1 5.24.1 5.20.2
php (7.3.7) 7.2.4 7.0.27 7.0.27 5.6.30
plasma-desktop (5.16.3) 5.12.5 5.8.6 5.8.6 4.11.13
postfix (3.4.6) 3.3.0 3.1.8 3.1.8 2.11.3
postgresql (11.4) -- 9.6.7 9.6.7 9.4.11
Python (3.7.4) 3.7.0~b5 3.5.3 2.7.13 2.7.9
qt (5.13.0) 5.10.1 5.7.1 5.7.1 4.8.6
samba (4.10.6) 4.8.2 4.5.12 4.5.12 4.2.14
systemd (242) 238 232 -- --
thunderbird (60.8.0) 52.8.0 52.6.0 52.6.0 45.8.0
vim (8.1) 8.0 8.0 8.0 7.4
vlc (3.0.7.1) 3.0.3 2.2.7 2.2.7 2.2.5
xfdesktop (4.12.5) 4.12.4 4.12.3 4.12.3 4.10.2
xorg-server (1.20.5) 1.20.0 1.19.2 1.19.2 1.16.4

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Version: testing
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-25
Votes: 64


 Devuan has been solid for my use (desktop) for 4 years. Running testing (Beowulf) currently. The distro is a rock for building what you want or using as installed. Many options are available and I
recommend it to any experienced linux user or any user with a willingness to learn.


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Version: unstable
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-15
Votes: 53


 I have Ceres (unstable) running on this my main office computer and Ascii (stable) running on a couple of family computers I have to look after.

If you like or liked Debian, but not systemd and the web it has woven, then think of this as if that had never happened. The only real loss is Gnome, but it doesn't effect me as I personally can't stand it.

It is like Debian, pretty much the same level of knowledge required, it instantly looks familiar, but with many of the lost choices and flexibility that is missing from Debian post-systemd still there.

Stable is stable and unstable at this point in time is stable enough for my use and better than most "stable" distributions I have tried recently.

It reflects well on the great work of the Devuan devs and also the work of Debian devs from which it is forked.


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Version: 2.0.0
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-06-10
Votes: 1


 Live System looked good, but Installtion is to complicated.
Wasn't able to install Bootloader properly, tried different settings, nothing worked, gave up.
Choises are kind of cryptic, not for beginners at all.
I installed at least 20 different Linux versions bevor,
last time i had problems with the bootloader was about 15 Years ago.
If administration of the system is this way too, it's not for me anyway...


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