One and a half years after the formation of the 2.0 branch distribution release , Debian GNU/Linux shipped without the systemd system manager. The release continues to use the package base . The transition to the Debian 10 package base will be made in the release which is under development.
For loading and installation for AMD64 and i386 architectures (for and virtual machines, official builds have not been generated and will be prepared by the community later). Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the repository . Supported on Devuan 2.1 with Debian 8.x "Jessie" or Debian 9.x "Stretch".
Of the changes in Devuan 2.1, the addition of a standard option to the installation images to use the initialization system is noted . The ability to use OpenRC as an alternative to SysVinit was available before, but required manipulation in expert install mode. Only expert mode continues to provide features such as changing the bootloader (installing lilo instead of grub) and excluding non-free firmware. The default repository is set to deb.devuan.org, randomly redirecting to one of 12 mirrors (linked to countries must be posted separately).
The live builds include the memtest86+, lvm2 and mdadm packages. DBus has been patched to generate a new system id (machine-id) for DBus at boot time (use of id is configurable via /etc/default/dbus). Devuan 2.1 builds also include all Debian 9 patches generated for vulnerabilities that were previously delivered through the regular package update installation system.
As a reminder, the Devuan project maintains branches for 381 Debian packages that have been modified to get rid of systemd bindings, rebranding, or adapting to Devuan's infrastructure features. (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 .
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