Today, i.e., 2021-02-15, a new version of Devuan 3.1.0 Beowulf has been quietly released. Devuan 3.1 is an intermediate release that continues the development of the Devuan 3.x branch, built on the Debian 10 'Buster' package base. Live builds and installation ISO images are available for AMD64 and i386 architectures. Builds for ARM (armel, armhf, and arm64) and images for of virtual machines the 3.1 release have not been prepared, but Devuan 3.0 builds can be used, after which the system can be updated.
About 400 Debian packages were forked, which have been modified to eliminate dependencies on systemd, rebranding, or adapting to the specifics of the Devuan infrastructure. Two packages (devuan-baseconf, jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-devuan) are only present in Devuan and are related to configuring repositories and operating the build system. Otherwise, Devuan is fully compatible with Debian and can be used as a basis for creating specialized Debian builds without systemd.
What’s New?
The installer offers a choice of three initialization systems: sysvinit, openrc, and runit. In expert mode, the option to choose an alternative bootloader (lilo) is provided, along with the option to disable the installation of non-free firmware.
The fixes for vulnerabilities from Debian 10 have been ported. The Linux kernel has been updated to version 4.19.171.
A new package debian-pulseaudio-config-override has been added to address the issue of PulseAudio being disabled by default. This package is automatically installed when selecting a desktop environment in the installer and comments out the setting "autospawn=no" in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf.
The issue with displaying 'Debian' instead of 'Devuan' in the boot menu has been resolved. To identify the system as 'Debian', the name in the file /etc/os-release should be changed.
ISO images can be downloaded here here
Source: linux.org.ru
