the first beta release of the Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf" distribution, Debian GNU/Linux, delivered without the system manager systemd. The new branch is notable for its transition to a package base . For downloading and installation for AMD64 and i386 architectures. Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the repository. .
Within the project, branches have been created for 381 Debian packages, which have been modified to eliminate dependencies on systemd, rebranded, or adapted for the specifics of the Devuan infrastructure. Two packages (devuan-baseconf, jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-devuan)
are present only in Devuan and are related to repository configuration and build system operations. Otherwise, Devuan is fully compatible with Debian and can be used as a base for creating specialized Debian builds without systemd.
The default desktop is based on Xfce and the Slim display manager. Optionally available for installation are KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, and LXQt. A classic initialization system is provided instead of systemd. Optional a mode of operation without D-Bus, allowing for the creation of minimalist desktop configurations based on window managers such as blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, fvwm-crystal, and openbox. For network configuration, a version of the NetworkManager configurator, not tied to systemd, is offered. Instead of systemd-udev, , a fork of udev from the Gentoo project, is used. For managing user sessions in KDE, Cinnamon, and LXQt, , a version of logind not tied to systemd, is offered. In Xfce and MATE, .
, specific to Devuan 3.0:
- The behavior of the su utility has been changed, to a change in the default value of the PATH environment variable. To set the current value of PATH, the command "su -" should be run.
- The launch settings for Pulseaudio have been changed; if there is no sound, verify that in the file
/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf закомментирована опция «autospawn=no». - Firefox-esr no longer requires the pulseaudio package, which can now be safely removed if it is not needed.
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