first beta release of Devuan 3.0 βBeowulfβ distribution, Debian GNU/Linux shipped without the systemd system manager. The new branch is notable for the transition to the package base . For loading and installation for AMD64 and i386 architectures. Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the repository .
The project has forked 381 Debian packages that have been modified to decouple from systemd, rebranded, or adapted to the Devuan infrastructure. Two packages (devuan-baseconf, jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv-devuan)
are present only in Devuan and are related to setting up repositories and the operation of the build system. Otherwise, Devuan is fully compatible with Debian and can be used as the basis for creating custom builds of Debian without systemd.
The default desktop is based on Xfce and the Slim display manager. Optionally available for installing KDE, MATE, Cinnamon and LXQt. Instead of systemd comes the classic init system . Optional a D-Bus-free mode that allows you to create minimalistic desktop configurations based on the blackbox, fluxbox, fvwm, fvwm-crystal and openbox window managers. To configure the network, a variant of the NetworkManager configurator is offered, which is not tied to systemd. Instead of systemd-udev is involved , a fork of udev from the Gentoo project. To manage user sessions in KDE, Cinnamon and LXQt, , a variant of logind not tied to systemd. Xfce and MATE use .
, specific to Devuan 3.0:
- The behavior of the su utility has been changed, c changing the default value of the PATH environment variable. To set the current PATH value, run βsu -β.
- Pulseaudio launch settings have been changed; if there is no sound, make sure that the file
/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf option "autospawn=no" commented out. - Firefox-esr no longer requires the presence of the pulseaudio package, which can now be painlessly removed if it is no longer needed.
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