[DNG] Announcing the First Devuan Conference in Amsterdam
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again, the Veteran Unix Admins salute you, and now invite you to celebrate community development and software freedom at the first Devuan Conference this coming spring! See http://devuan.org/d1conf # Devuan Conference #1: "THE POWER OF CHOICE" # Starting: Friday, April 5th 13:00 CEST # Ending: Sunday, April 7th 16:00 CEST # Location: Amsterdam Houthavens Haparandadam 7, 1013AK The Netherlands https://osm.org/go/0E5qkSsTZ # Presentations - PID1: Welcome and Introductions - The Importance of Minimalism and Modularity - CI Galore: the Devuan SDK and the Docker Toaster - Make Your Own Distro - Competing with Giants: How to Sell Devuan to Your Company - Maemo-Leste Mobile Phone OS on N900 - DECODE OS for P2P Micro-Services over Tor - Dowse: the Rod for Local Area Network Awareness - ... More to be announced # Hacking sessions - Installing Devuan-live - Devuan with s6/s6-rc - Disk Encryption - ... Suggestions welcome # Register An Early-Bird All-Access Pass[1] to the conference is 95€ (about $110 USD)* with one meal per day catered. Space is limited to 70 for on-site participation, and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Register early to guarantee your reservation. For those unable to attend, the event will be live-streamed, recorded, and available online. Happy hacking and see you there! ;^) [1] https://events.eventzilla.net/e/welcome-to-the-first-devuan-conference-d1conf-2019-2138704309 *Cost of the 3-day pass is calculated on a non-profit basis to cover the expense of location, equipment, and related materials. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Participate to the first Devuan Conference in Amsterdam!
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, On the fourth anniversary of the birth of Devuan, once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! # Participate to the first Devuan Conference in Amsterdam! ## From Friday, April 5th through Sunday, April 7th 2019 # The power of choice The Devuan Conference 2019 is a not-for-profit event, this means that the conference fees will cover the bare cost of venue, catering, logistics and documentation materials. At this stage we accept donations and offers for sponsorship: if you like to help, contact us at or make a donation using the description '**Devuan Conference**' directly to: ``` Paypal: foundat...@dyne.org ``` Or via bank wire to the IBAN below : ``` Dyne.org foundation (non-profit) Bank: ABN-AMRO - Amsterdam, The Netherlands IBAN: NL87ABNA0406496021 BIC: ABNANL2A ``` # Call for Sponsors Space at the conference is limited and we are trying to balance the amount of registration with the size of the venue and resources available. Hence registrations at this time are called mainly for **talks** and **sponsors**. In two weeks we will follow up with more information and an early bird offer for tickets. Please do consider sponsoring this event! We will work hard to give you and all the conference attendees all the visibility deserved. Send your sponsorship proposal to with the word `sponsor` in the subject. If we have enough sponsors to cover all costs we'll be able to grant free entrance! # Call for Papers Devuan Conference 2019 is YOUR conference! Please share your ideas and passion. If you would you like to: - present on a Devuan-related topic, or - report on a particularly successful/unexpected/original use of Devuan, or - host a Devuan-related workshop for users or developers, or - run a Devuan-focused hacking session, or - Then please contact us at If you like to propose a talk please send us a title, description, length in minutes and any URL or PDF via email, please also include the word '**CFP**' in the subject. # Travel and accomodation The costs for reaching and staying in Amsterdam are entirely on participants, but we hope that by releasing early this call everyone has enough time to conveniently book a place in this beautiful city and perhaps allow a couple extra days to visit it and hang out. # Live streaming and recording The conference will be a great occasion to have in-depth interviews with developers and adopters as well plenary sessions of Q with the public, in the hope to exchange more information about the future of Devuan. The event will be streamed live and recorded and all recordings will be freely made available online. Journalists interested to participate are welcome to contact us, we will prepare a press folder and make sure they can reach anyone they want to interview. # Contact For any further questions please feel free to contact our conference organisation committee via email at we are happy to receive suggestions and wishes and requests, to make this the best possible conference for our community # Further steps Thanks for reading up to hear! if you or anyone else is interested please make sure to subscribe our devuan-announce list here: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-announce updates will follow in the coming months, meanwhile if you are sure to attend make sure to reserve your tickets and stay in Amsterdam: on 5-7 April 2019 the very first Devuan Conference is happening! Happy Hacking! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 stable
Dear Init Freedom Lovers Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is finally available. Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal, stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and promotes alternatives to systemd and its components. Devuan 2.0 ASCII runs on several architectures. Installer CD and DVD ISOs, as well as desktop-live and minimal-live ISOs, are available for i386 and amd64. Ready-to-use images can be downloaded for a number of ARM platforms and SOCs, including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OrangePi, BananaPi, OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Nokia and Motorola mobile phones, and several Chromebooks, as well as for Virtualbox/QEMU/Vagrant. The Devuan 2.0 ASCII installer ISOs offer a variety of Desktop Environments including Xfce, KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQt, with others available post-install. The expert install mode now offers a choice of either SysVinit or OpenRC as init system. In addition, there are options for "Console productivity" with hundreds of CLI and TUI utils, as well as a minimal base system ideal for servers. The minimal-live image provides a full-featured console-based system with a particular focus on accessibility. The desktop-live images are the recommended option for people wanting to explore and easily install Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable, and also for the press and those interested in reviewing the default Xfce desktop. The efforts of Devuan developers are now focused on the third Devuan release codenamed Beowulf (Planet nr. 38086). Preliminary installer images should be ready for testing soon. We would like to thank the entire Devuan community for the continued support, feedback, and collaboration. ## Download Devuan 2.0 ASCII images are available for download at: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ and from the ISO mirrors listed at: http://devuan.org/get-devuan The latter URL also includes information about the official Devuan package repositories. ## Release Notes Devuan 2.0 Stable Release notes include brief installation and upgrading instructions, as well information on desktop session management with the introduction of eudev and elogind, and on the new mirror network accessible through "deb.devuan.org". The Devuan ASCII release notes are available at: https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt ## Upgrade Direct and easy upgrade paths from Devuan Jessie, Debian Jessie, and Debian Stretch to Devuan 2.0 ASCII are available. Upgrade from Devuan Jessie: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/upgrade-to-ascii Migrate from Debian Jessie or Stretch: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-ascii The following will be enough to upgrade if you are already using Devuan ASCII Beta or Devuan ASCII RC: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ## Devuan Derivatives Devuan is a reliable base system chosen as a base by many derivative distributions. We are proud of the growing community of enthusiastic developers benefiting from Devuan, and would like to acknowledge some recent efforts based on Devuan ASCII: Refracta: an installable live for home computing and rescue tasks http://sf.net/projects/refracta MIYO: featuring an Awesome desktop https://sf.net/projects/miyolinux/ FluXuan: built around Fluxbox http://fluxuan.sourceforge.io/ Maemo Leste: for mobile phones and tablets, including Nokia N900/N950, Motorola Droid 4, Allwinner, and more https://maemo-leste.github.io/ DecodeOS: to build micro-services on anonymous network clusters over hidden Tor services https://decodeos.dyne.org/ A list with more Devuan derivatives can be found at: https://devuan.org/os/partners/devuan-distros ## Services offering Devuan Devuan is a snappy, stable base for virtual server applications. Several providers offer ready-to-install Devuan images on their platforms, including: Data Center Light: operated by a bunch of cool folks keen to give back to the Devuan community. They have organised Devuan hackatons and have had special offers in place on Devuan VMs https://devuanhosting.com OpenNebula: which offers Devuan ASCII guest images off their marketplace and for free http://marketplace.opennebula.org ## Contact Mailing list: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev (Freenode) Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org Press contact: free...@devuan.org Source code: https://git.devuan.org Bug tracker: https://bugs.devuan.org Popularity contest: https://popcon.devuan.org Package information: https://pkginfo.devuan.org ## Appreciation We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, which continues to make Devuan a useful and reliable base distribution as well as a pleasant and cooperative community. To support the Devuan project you can donate at: https://devuan.org/donate (includes financial reports)
[DNG] Devuan "ASCII" 2.0 Release Candidate
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! We are happy to announce that the Devuan 2.0 ASCII Release Candidate is now available thanks to the support, feedback, and collaboration of the Devuan community. Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable will be following soon. The Devuan 2.0 ASCII RC installer now offers a wider variety of Desktop Environments including XFCE, KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQT (with others available post-install). In addition, there are options for "Console productivity" with hundreds of CLI and TUI utils, as well as a minimal base system ideal for servers. When installing from ISO, the expert install option offers a choice of SysVinit and OpenRC. Official ready-to-use Devuan 2.0 ASCII RC images are available for dozens of ARM boards and SOCs, including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OrangePi, BananaPi, OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Nokia N900, and several Chromebooks, as well as for Virtualbox/QEMU/Vagrant. The desktop-live images are recommended for users to explore and easily install Devuan 2.0 ASCII RC and also for the press to review the default Xfce desktop. The minimal-live image provides a full-featured console-based system with a particular focus on accessibility. Devuan developers have already started working on the third Devuan release codenamed Beowulf (Planet nr. 38086). Preliminary installer images should be ready for testing soon. ## Download Devuan 2.0 ASCII Release Candidate images are available for download at: http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii_rc/ and from the ISO mirrors listed at: http://devuan.org/get-devuan The latter URL also includes information about the official Devuan repositories. ## Upgrade Upgrade paths from Debian Jessie, Devuan Jessie, and Debian Stretch are available. Please see the instructions at: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/ The following will be enough to upgrade if you are already using Devuan ASCII Beta: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade ## Derivatives The Devuan project is about providing a reliable universal base for derivatives to build on its foundation. These recent Devuan derivatives deserve special recognition: Maemo Leste is a new ASCII-based derivative succesfully ported on a number of mobile phones like the Nokia N900, N950, Motorola Droid 4, Allwinner tablets and more. https://maemo-leste.github.io/ DecodeOS is another ASCII-based derivative targeting micro-service usage on anonymous network clusters. It includes original software developed to automatically build p2p networks as Tor hidden service families. https://decodeos.dyne.org/ heads, the libre privacy distro previously based on ASCII, continues its development and has already moved forward to Beowulf as its new base. https://heads.dyne.org More Devuan derivatives can be found at: https://devuan.org/os/partners/devuan-distros ## Contact Mailing list: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev (Freenode) Forum: http://dev1galaxy.org Press contact: free...@devuan.org Bug tracker: https://bugs.devuan.org Popularity contest: https://popcon.devuan.org ## Appreciation We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, which continues to make Devuan a useful and reliable base distro as well as a pleasant and cooperative community. To support the Devuan project: https://devuan.org/donate Financial reports for the year 2017 are available for download from the same page. happy hacking ;^) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 Beta released
Dear dev1rs the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! On February 14th 2015, Devuan unveiled a "pre-alpha" Valentine release of Devuan Jessie [1] just a few months after the Veteran Unix Admins declared their intention to fork Debian on November 27th 2014 [2]. That was the beginning of our collective journey. Now, three years later, Valentine's day has more love for the Devuan community. The long-awaited release of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta (minor planet nr. 3568) is here! ## So what's new in Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta? - OpenRC is installable using the expert install path (thanks Maemo Leste!) - eudev has replaced systemd-udev (thanks Gentoo!) - elogind has been added as an alternative to consolekit (thanks Gentoo!) - Desktop users can choose among fully functional XFCE (Default), KDE, Cinnamon, LXQT, MATE, and LXDE desktops - CLI-oriented users can select the "Console productivity" task that installs a fully-featured set of console-based utils and tools. - A .vdi disk image is now provided for use with VirtualBox. - ARM board kernels have been updated to 4.14 and 4.15 for most boards. ## Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable is on the horizon Although Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta has been powering thousands of servers and desktops for the last two years and been extensively tested by the Devuan community, it is being released as a beta because at Devuan we value involvement and feedback. So we want even more extensive testing of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta to confirm "when it is ready" to be called a Stable release. Once Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable is released, our efforts will turn to Devuan 3.0 Beowulf (minor planet nr. 38086). ## Download Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta **Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta at:** http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii **Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta is available for amd64 and i386 in the following flavours:** - installable live CD/DVD - installation CD/DVD - NETINST CDROM - installable minimal live - qcow/vagrant images **ARM:** https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/embedded/README.txt **Virtual machines:** https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/virtual/README.txt ## Upgrade to Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta provides safe upgrade paths from Devuan 1.0 Jessie, Debian 8.x Jessie, Debian 9.x Stretch. Just follow the relevant instructions at: https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-ascii https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/upgrade-to-ascii ## Feedback (we love that!) If you try to install Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta from a DVD or CD setup please test it offline (i.e., without a network connection and without a configured mirror). If something goes wrong please try it online (i.e., with a network connection and a configured mirror). And then please report your findings to us including the list of packages as given by `dpkg -l | gzip -9 > packagelist.gz` and the output of `cat /var/lib/pam/session > pamconfig.txt` Please get in touch with us through one of the community channels listed below or on freenode #devuan-dev for real-time interaction. ## Information and contacts Web: http://www.devuan.org Forum: http://dev1galaxy.org BTS: http://bugs.devuan.org IRC: #devuan (freenode) Journalists please note: this announcement of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta release is mainly for internal testing not for wide redistribution. An announcement for the Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable release will hopefully follow very soon. happy hacking! The dev1 team [1] You can find an archive of the pre-alpha Valentine release message here: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180213.205150.929bbd85.en.html [2] https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/ ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable LTS
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! Many of you might remember November 2014 when we announced that we were going to fork Debian. Well, we have done exactly that. It has been a long process, but now over two years later, we proudly present Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable. There have been no significant bug reports since Devuan Jessie RC2 was announced only three weeks ago and the list of release critical bugs is now empty. So finally Devuan Jessie Stable is ready for release! As promised, this will also be a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release. Our team will participate in providing patches, security updates, and release upgrades beyond the planned lifespan of Debian Jessie. A lot of appreciation has been coming our way in the last few weeks. And now with this Stable release we anticipate that even the most skeptical among private and enterprise users will finally be ready to jump on the Devuan train. Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable is a major milestone in the new path drawn by the Devuan project and its development has provided an opportunity to lay down a strong foundation for the Devuan community. In the last two years we have put in place a powerful infrastructure to support the development and growth of Devuan, which now includes: - Source management <https://git.devuan.org> - Continuous integration <https://ci.devuan.org> - Bug tracking <https://bugs.devuan.org> - User forum <https://dev1galaxy.org> - Package statistics and analysis <https://popcon.devuan.org> During the Jessie release cycle we have strenghtened and optimised these services and also migrated to more powerful hardware to cope with the increased loads we have experienced. The ambitious plan to provide a no-nonsense universal GNU+Linux distribution does not stop here - it extends beyond this release. Our main development efforts will now turn to Devuan ASCII (Minor Planet #3568), which will be the next stable release. We are confident that the preliminary ASCII ISOs could be available for testing soon. Beyond ASCII - the saga of Beowulf (Minor Planet #38086) appropriately mirrors the path we have taken. :^) Please find below instructions to try out or install Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable on your computer and to upgrade from Debian 7 (Wheezy) or Debian 8 (Jessie). If you are already using Devuan Jessie RC2, a simple `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` will be enough to get the latest updates. ## Download (for new installs) Official Devuan images are distributed via the website <https://files.devuan.org> To ease the load on our bandwidth we kindly ask you to use one of the following mirrors - <https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan> - <https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan/> - <https://devuan.c3l.lu> - <https://devuan.4isp.it> - <https://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/> - <https://xoreaxeax.de/files.devuan.org/> - <https://mirror.alpix.eu/devuan/> - <https://devuan.smallinnovations.nl> - <http://devuan.ksx4system.net> - <http://tux.rainside.sk/devuan> - <http://neo900.files.dev-1.org> - <http://devuan.mirror.k0nsl.org/> - <http://mirror.alpix.eu/devuan/> - <http://devuan.smallinnovations.nl> - ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan - ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan - rsync: mirror.leaseweb.com::devuan - rsync: ftp.nluug.nl::devuan - rsync: mirror.alpix.eu::devuan Note: For off-line installations we recommend using the DVD image or the live images, not the /installer-iso images. For on-line installations please use the NETINST images. (The use of the CD image is not recommended, since the iso does not contain enough applications to make it useful in any off-line circumstance.) All files offered for download come with their SHA256 hash to check the integrity (either in the `SHA256SUMS` or in the .sha files) and with a cryptographic signature made using GnuPG by one of the Devuan developers in charge of the build, included as .asc file. An understanding of Devuan's script-friendly file naming scheme and directory structure will help you find what you need: <https://devuan.org/os/filenaming> ## Upgrade (for existing installations) Devuan Jessie Stable can be adopted as a flawless upgrade path from both Debian 7 (Wheezy) and Debian 8 (Jessie). This is a main goal for the Devuan Jessie stable release and has proven to be a very stable operation every time it has been performed. Detailed installation and upgrade instructions are available including translations: <https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/> The Devuan Apt package repositories are: ``` deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie main deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main ``` We provide access to our package repository also via Tor: ``` deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onio
[DNG] Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! Just two weeks after the release of Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC, we are happy to announce Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2. Thanks to the very good feedback received from the community, this release candidate is one step closer to our final Devuan stable release and our first long term support (LTS) release as well. The first RC was well-received in the press and in user reviews: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/22/devuan\_1\_0\_0\_released/ http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan Please find below instructions to try out or install Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 RC2 on your computer and to upgrade from Debian 7 (Wheezy) or Debian 8 (Jessie). If you are already using Devuan Jessie RC, a simple `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` will be enough to get the latest updates. As soon as Devuan Jessie stable is released, we will turn our attention to Devuan Ascii, the current development branch. We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, and for engaging in the process of making Devuan a useful and reliable base distro, as well as a pleasant, cooperative community. # What has improved in RC2 - Solved issues with signing keys -- All the keys used to sign installation and live images are now listed at: https://devuan.org/os/team/ - free and non-free firmware packages are now included in desktop-live and minimal-live isos. A script to remove all non-free firmware packages from running live images is provided in /root - backports (bpo) repos are now correctly pinned at priority 100, meaning that no package from backports will be automatically installed - Added a systemd-free version of network-manager - New versions of reportbug, desktop-base, xfce4-panel - Several more libsystemd0-free packages are now included in the jessie-proposed repo - Removed GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon as DE options in tasksel. These three DEs are still (mostly) installable after the installation is complete, but they are known to suffer from some glitches due to the lack of systemd - Fixed several minor bugs - A total of 29 different ARM boards are now supported, thanks to the added support for u-boot: - Currently supported boards are: - Acer Chromebook (chromeacer) - Veyron/Rockchip Chromebook (chromeveyron) - Nokia N900 (n900) - Odroid XU (odroidxu) - Raspberry Pi 0 and 1 (raspi1) - Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 (raspi2) - Raspberry Pi 3 - arm64 (raspi3) - Allwinner boards are now contained in a single image (sunxi), and their respective U-Boot bootloader downloads are available in the u-boot directory. The currently supported boards are: - Olimex: Lime (A10), Lime, Lime2, MICRO (A20) - Banana Pi: Pi, Pro (A20) - CHIP: CHIP (R8), CHIP Pro (GR8) - Cubieboard: Cubieboard (A10), Cubieboard2, Cubietruck (A20) Cubieboard4 (A80), Cubietruck Plus (A83t) - Lamobo R1 (A20) - OrangePi: OrangePi2, OrangePi Lite, OrangePi Plus (H3) OrangePi Zero (H2+), OrangePi, OrangePi Mini (A20) - Allwinner-based Tablet (A33) - More info on these boards can be found in the respective README files in the downloads directory - Requests for any Allwinner board support can be sent to <para...@dyne.org> or the #devuan-arm IRC channel - Preferably they should be supported in mainline Linux and mainline U-Boot # Anyone can help Devuan! Devuan is a large endeavor involving people of all ages, from different countries, with a rainbow of skills and interests. Anyone can contribute to ensure that Devuan maintains its role as a stable and reliable universal operating system. Here are some suggestions of how you can help Devuan grow and prosper: - If you think you have found a bug in a Devuan package, please report it to http://bugs.devuan.org, either by using the `reportbug` tool or directly via email - If you think you know how to fix an exiting bug, please report the solution in the corresponding page on http://bugs.devuan.org, or, better, roll-up your sleeves, implement the fix, and get in touch with the development team on IRC (`#devuan-dev` on freenode) to have your patch included in the official repos - If you would like a package to be included in Devuan, please consider joining the development team by taking charge of packaging and maintaining it. This documentation will guide you through the process: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549 - If you can provide documentation or translations in any language, please have a look at https://git.devuan.org/groups/devuan-doc - If you have comments about the website and/or other public aspects of Devuan, please get in touch (contact jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> or golinux <goli...@dyne.org>) - If y
[DNG] Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! Our April 2017 gift to you is the long-awaited release of Devuan Jessie stable release candidate (1.0.0-RC). If all goes as planned, this will be our first Devuan stable release and our first long term support (LTS) release as well. Two and a half years have passed since our initial Debianfork declaration (https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/) and not even one year since our first beta release (http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/devuan-beta-release). This Devuan Jessie release candidate is as close as we can get to a "long term support" universal base distribution free from systemd, in the original spirit of Debian. The final Devuan Jessie release will follow shortly and then we will turn our attention to "Ascii", the current testing branch. We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development effort, and for engaging in the process of making Devuan a useful and reliable base distro, as well as a pleasant, cooperative community. # What has improved in Devuan Jessie The wifi autodetection problems present in the beta release series have been fixed. The problem that prevented samba from installing has been fixed. Devuan now directly provides different base distribution flavours: desktop-live (finally the purpy experience), embedded, minimal-live and installer-iso. Devuan's Simple Distro Kit (SDK) is rapidly approaching maturity, with a full set of scripts and documentation to roll your own Devuan-based distro in any flavor. (https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=551) The Refracta scripts are now included in Devuan, which makes it easy to toast a new live distro from the state of a running one. Devuan's infrastructure is now powered by the 'debbugs' bug tracking system originally written by Ian Jackson, and the 'reportbug' tool works as expected. Package maintenance has been demystified and partially automated with d1h - the Devuan packaging helper (https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=549) - which simplifies the task of interacting with the Devuan continuous integration pipeline and makes it easier for developers to package their projects for Devuan correctly. Please consider rolling up your sleeves and joining the development team! ARM support has improved: Devuan now provides base SD card images for 11 different hardware platforms: raspi1, raspi2, raspi3, chromeacer, chromeveyron, cubieboard2, cubietruck, lime2, micro, N900, odroidxu. When applicable (sunxi boards) ARM images are powered by mainline 4.10.y Linux kernels. # Downloads Official Devuan images are distributed via the website (https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_rc/) To ease the load on our bandwidth we kindly ask you to use one of the following mirrors: - http://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan - http://devuan.ksx4system.net - http://tux.rainside.sk/devuan - http://nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan - http://devuan.c3l.lu - http://neo900.files.dev-1.org - http://devuan.4isp.it - http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/devuan/ - http://devuan.mirror.k0nsl.org/ - ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan - ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan All files offered for download come with their SHA256 hash to check the integrity (either in the SHA256SUMS or in the .sha files) and with a cryptographic signature made using GnuPG by one of the Devuan developers in charge of the build, included as .asc file. An understanding of Devuan's script-friendly file naming scheme and directory structure will help you find what you need. (https://devuan.org/os/filenaming) # Related projects Here is a short list of projects which use Devuan as a base OS for their research and development: Dowse - the IoT awareness Hub which won the ISOC NL Innovation prize 2016 is based on Devuan and just released its 1.0 beta: https://dowse.eu DECODE - An R project on data sovereignty and blockchain technology financed with 5M EUR by the EU Commission is based on Devuan: http://decocodeproject.eu heads - a live distro focused on privacy, security, and freedoms, experimenting with Devuan Ascii, and having a workshop @ http://2017.rmll.info: https://heads.dyne.org ## Distributions based on Devuan In chronological order of appearance: - Gnuinos <http://gnuinos.org> (linux-libre 100% free, GNU review pending) - Refracta <http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta> - Exe GNU/Linux <http://exegnulinux.net> - Nelum-dev1 <https://sourceforge.net/projects/nelum-dev1> - Star <https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix> - heads <https://heads.dyne.org> (linux-libre 100% free, GNU review pending) - good-life-linux <https://sourceforge.net/projects/good-life-linux/> - Crowz <https://sourceforge.net/projects/crowz> # Upgrade Devuan can be adopted as a flawless upgrade path from both Debian Wheezy and Jessie. This is a main goal for the Devuan Jessie stable release
[DNG] Devuan GNU+Linux Beta2 release
Dear Init Freedom Lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you! After some important fixes and updates, we continue down our path of providing Debian without systemd by announcing the release of Devuan Jessie Beta2. This interim Beta2 release is another milestone as Devuan continues towards its goal of sustainability as a universal base distribution. Beta2 will be soon followed by a release candidate and the final Jessie release, due beginning of 2017. # Where we are, how we got here and where we are going A presentation was given at the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS) earlier in November 2016 and is visible here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvyOGawNwo This video gives an extensive overview on all the work done so far on Devuan. The slides shown are available here: https://devuan.org/os/download/devuan_fscons2016.pdf A list of live links to the derivatives mentioned in that presentation are listed here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=9 # Downloads Official Devuan images: https://files.devuan.org Live iso from Refracta: https://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/ (coming soon) Minimal live iso with accessibility support: http://kalos.mine.nu # Upgrade As with the Beta, this release provides a safe upgrade path from Debian Wheezy and a flawless upgrade from Debian Jessie while nearly eliminating the necessity for anything systemd. The Devuan Apt package repositories are: ``` deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie main deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates main deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main ``` We provide access to our package repository also via Tor: ``` deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie main deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie-updates main deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie-security main ``` # Growing support Since the Beta release, even more developers, supporters and now many users have Devuan in production environments and on their personal computers. This larger user-base has helped smooth the edges of the Beta thanks to an active community. As our journey lead by world-class experts, supporters, enthusiasts and donors continues, we acknowledge with heartfelt thanks and appreciation everyone of you. We are very grateful for every donation, helping this project to survive and grow https://devuan.org/donate # Community Mailinglist: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng Community Docs: https://talk.devuan.org Community Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org IRC channel: #devuan on freenode.net happy hacking ;^) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Devuan Jessie - beta release announcement
dear Init Freedom Lovers, once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you. As promised two years ago with the first declaration of Exodus from Debian, today we can proudly state: we do not go gentle into that good night. Now has come the time to announce the Beta release of Devuan. Debian GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd, on its way to become much more than that. This Beta release marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as an universal base distribution. Today Devuan Jessie provides continuity as a safe upgrade path from Debian Wheezy and a flawless switch from Debian Jessie avoiding most of the problems introduced by systemd. This has taken more than expected, but that's because we haven't given up on any important detail known to us. Today we can say Devuan is here to stay as something we can rely on in the future. Developers and supporters are already using it in production and this Beta here is to ask the community at large to help us spot what is missing and smooth the edges of Devuan Jessie, but also to keep donating, sponsoring and investing in our development. This has been a long journey, lead by world-class experts, supporters, entusiasts and donors. We are very grateful to all of you: beyond the code, it is this critical mass that made Devuan become what it is today, a new start in the firmament of base GNU+Linux distributions. # Download With this release we are experiencing heavy load, proof of the enormous interest around this distribution. Please use this torrent: https://beta.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta.torrent All installers released are on https://files.devuan.org Mirrors can use rsync to stay up to date, please notice us at if you setup one from `files.devuan.org::devuan` SHA256 sums of files for download are signed with key 4ACB7D10 available on pgp.mit.edu and keybase.io/jaromil Here a list of the released installers and images: - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_DVD.iso 4.36 GB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_CD.iso644 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_NETINST.iso 212 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD.iso 647 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_NETINST.iso252 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_cloud.qcow2 693.95 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_opennebula.qcow2 685.3 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_amd64_vagrant.box 651.94 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_bananapi.img.xz 185.06 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_bananapro.img.xz 185.06 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_beagleboneblack.img.xz274.95 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_chromeacer.img.xz 265.65 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_cubieboard2.img.xz249.02 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_cubietruck.img.xz 249.74 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_odroidxu.img.xz 200.97 MB - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_armhf_raspi2.img.xz 194.17 MB # Press A press kit is available on https://devuan.org/os/press Journalist inquiries are welcome and we may be able to accomodate different language needs, yet the main one is english. Contact us on IRC or by email (see https://devuan.org/os/contact). # Support Please support devuan with a donation: https://devuan.org/os/donate During 2014 and 2015 we have received up to 10.000 $ in donations and we are very grateful for everyone who believed in us, you know who you are <3. This money has been used to pave the road towards the beta release we have today. But this is not enough to continue at a good pace and we are determined to not let Devuan be just an hobbie. We want to build Devuan as a sustainable project that can motivate and support highly skilled developers to work on it. We kindly ask everyone out there to keep supporting us financially with donations and sponsorships. A shop is up with some merchanding https://shop.spreadshirt.net/devuan For a sponsorship agreement please do not hesitate to contact us at the private email address: onelove \at\ devuan.org. # Team As of today, many of us are proud to be public, not just on the basis of a declaration, but on the actual work that has been done, with a lot of passion, yet mostly in our spare time. The Devuan's developer team is listed publicly on https://devuan.org/os/team. We'd like to give a warm welcome also to our board of trustees, whose ethical conduct and technical concerns have nurtured this project from its very inception and will guide it it in the future. The Devuan board of trustees: - Yvette Agostini (VUA) :: founder of the Veteran Unix Admins group - Roger Leigh (Debian) :: maintainer of sysvinit package in Debian - Gabriele “Asbesto” Zaverio (MusIF) :: director, computer museum - Emiliano Russo (MIAI) :: director, computer museum - Stefania Calcagno (ESOCOP) :: president, European Society for Computer Preservation # Thanks for all your appreciation and happy hacking! ___ Dng mailing list
[Dng] Update from the Veteran Unix Admins
Dear Init Freedom lovers, Once again the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you! As most of you know, we have followed up with our intentions in developing Devuan GNU/Linux right after Ian Jackson's GR vote resolution in Debian. We have made great progress and achieved several milestones among them a complete SDK to facilitate package maintainance, a new package repository software Amprolla and a continuous integration workflow based on gitlab and Jenkins. We are also proud to have facilitate the work of Jude Nelson on a new /dev daemon implementation called VDev and more in general to have given voice to all those who had doubts about systemd being a viable course of evolution for GNU/Linux operating systems. By doing so we have obviously looked deep inside Debian and systemd itself and we have never refrained from critically analysing what systemd was doing as well what we were doing and the reasons for it. We firmly believe every responsible and critical engineer out there should at least think twice about developing something new systems and even Donald Knuth teaches us in the Art of Programming that is always appropriate to re-think and re-design algorithms and challenge ourselves over our own initial beliefs. That's why today, after 7 months of work in the direction of forking Debian we have decided that not, we will not do that. Today we give up and we accept to be assimilated. After all, we think that systemd is not so bad and we can live with it. We understand some of you may not be convinced, but please consider our decision here is really well thought. It is also too hard for us to catch up with the rampant development going on in systemd and we believe that we can live just fine with systemd and some shims. We tried hard, now we hope you will believe us and even if you don't, at least please give systemd a try. With the existing infrastructure in place, we will start maintaining a mirror of systemd and use our CI infrastructure to contribute deterministic reproducible builds of Debian packages. We ask the free and open source software community at large to please accept our apologies for making so much noise on this issue, today we feel like we have just been trolled by all those complainers we initially gave voice and leverage, while it is evident they have nothing to contribute really. It took us some time to understand that systemd is the future and we hope this experience contributes to a critical understanding of systemd. To all those who have donated substantial amounts of money so far: we commit to return you all the donations in EUR or Dogecoin. The donations that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor children in Africa. so long and thanks for all the fish, The Veteran Unix Admins ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
