Hi All,
Seasons greetings!
I'm working on a vehicle router project based on i.MX6 and we were,
until a few days ago, using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS armhf. I was about to
migrate to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS when I noticed that systemd had taken over
but not all of my hardware management leaving me stranded between
systemd and udev.
So I have converted to Devuan Jessie 1.0 - I installed a minimal system
from Ubuntu 14.04 via debootstrap on to a newly formatted and
partitioned SD card, copied over by boot partition and everything worked
first time and I have achieved 'init freedom' ;-)
Reading the 'Release Information' at:
https://devuan.org/os/releases
it is not terribly clear to me exactly which Debian 'Jessie' the Devuan
'Jessie' is built upon - the reason for this is that Debian has 'point
releases', e.g 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 ... and the current Debian Jessie is
release 8.10 dated 9th December 2017.
Which Devuan Jessie is 1.0.0 ? If it is anything other than 8.10 then
what is the migration path/roadmap/time-scale to Devuan Jessie based on
8.10 and what Devuan version number would it then be?
How long are Devuan releases, like Jessie, going to be supported? Debian
Jessie appears to end at the end of 2018, according to this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history#Debian_8_(Jessie)
will Devuan follow on the same timescale?
I would like to formally adopt Devuan for use in our products and
platforms but we need to provide a five year product support life cycle
to our customers - so starting from Jessie now doesn't appear to be the
right place if support ends late 2018/early 2019?
I note that Devuan release 'Ascii' is marked as 'in development' and
this is based on Debian 9 'Stretch' which probably will have support
over the timescales that we need, but there's proposed release date for
'Ascii', i.e. no date for when we can expect a version of 'Ascii - stable'?
I think you've done a great job with the work to date but users,
customers, industry and beyond could do with a clearer picture in
respect of release dates - as I am sure that you are aware one of the
advantages with Ubuntu's approach is knowing that there is an
intermediate release every 6 months and a major/LTS release every two
years in April.
If you could provide some more clarity in terms of release dates and
development roadmap (even if it is best-guestimates) this would increase
confidence and speed up adaption.
Regards
Mike
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