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Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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Re: Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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Post by INTPenis »

Actual announcement: https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-candidate-announce-...

Reminds me of dragonfly bsd. Anyone still use that?

I stayed on 4.x until 6.x came out and later Scott Long actually admitted that 5.x was a bad release.

So Devuan now wants to continue Debian with tons of shell scripts to maintain while most other major distros move to systemd. That means package maintainers are moving to systemd. So Devuan will have to maintain separate init scripts for their distro mostly on their own.

I mean who in their right mind would write a 27 line init script when they could write a 7 line systemd unit?

Re: Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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Post by duskwuff »

jwildeboer wrote: post #2

Oh? Took em that long?

And why did they have to call it "Jessie"? That's the code name Debian used for their 8.0 release in 2015.

Come on... if you're going to fork a distribution, use different release names.

Re: Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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Post by tgragnato »

duskwuff wrote: post #4
jwildeboer wrote: post #2

Oh? Took em that long?

And why did they have to call it "Jessie"? That's the code name Debian used for their 8.0 release in 2015. Come on... if you're going to fork a distribution, use different release names.

> https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/devuan-co...

They call Jessie a "Matching release", I guess the intention is to stress the fact that you can safely migrate from Debian without a reinstall.

Re: Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

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Post by lomnakkus »

tgragnato wrote: post #6
duskwuff wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And why did they have to call it "Jessie"? That's the code name Debian used for their 8.0 release in 2015. Come on... if you're going to fork a distribution, use different release names.

> https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/devuan-co... They call Jessie a "Matching release", I guess the intention is to stress the fact that you can safely migrate from Debian without a reinstall.

They missed an opportunity there. Should have been "jessie-j".

... but I actually agree with duskwuff. It's hugely confusing and possibly even disingenuous to call it "jessie".

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