Devuan, Debian fork without systemd
Three days ago , Devuan was officially launched, a Debian fork project by opponents of using systemd. The name is pronounced dev one.
Not so much information is available on the official website devuan.org , the project has just begun. Now is setting up servers, mailing list systems and repositories. For development, it is planned to use GitHub ( github.com/devuan ).
As with Debian, there will be stable, testing and unstable branches. The first package will be devuan-baseconf, which will begin work on getting rid of the operating system's dependency on systemd. The project is already accepting donations, so far they have collected several hundred dollars and 190 millibitcoins. The participation of developers and artists is welcome - the new operating system lacks logos.
systemd is the daemon for initializing other daemons on Linux, which is used instead of SystemV Init (sysvinit). A feature of systemd is intensive paralleling of the startup services during the boot process, which significantly speeds up the launch of the operating system.
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In the period between October 2013 and February 2014, the technical committee's mailing list was in fierce debate on which initialization system to use in Debian 8. The result of the debate was the third vote in February of this year, when systemd was chosen as the initialization system. Soon, Mark Shuttleworth announced his desire to use systemd in Ubuntu, although he had previously treated the project negatively.
The decision to use systemd in Debian has been criticized by the community. Developers are accused of violating the principles of Unix philosophy and overconfidence.
The architecture of the project is compared with how Microsoft Windows is built; it literally says that systemd is the new svchost of Linux operating systems. Nor do Lennart Pottering's proposals continually expand functionality: the systemd daemon takes on too many functions and limits the freedom of development.
In April, a campaign against systemd began, the resource boycottsystemd.com was launched. A group of people who call themselves "experienced Unix admins" opened a debianfork.org site calling for a Debian fork.
And the fork finally happened. These events are not a demonstration of the weakness of open source software solutions. On the contrary, it shows once again how easily anyone can change the OS to suit their tastes. This is only possible due to the free nature of Linux.
Not so much information is available on the official website devuan.org , the project has just begun. Now is setting up servers, mailing list systems and repositories. For development, it is planned to use GitHub ( github.com/devuan ).
As with Debian, there will be stable, testing and unstable branches. The first package will be devuan-baseconf, which will begin work on getting rid of the operating system's dependency on systemd. The project is already accepting donations, so far they have collected several hundred dollars and 190 millibitcoins. The participation of developers and artists is welcome - the new operating system lacks logos.
systemd is the daemon for initializing other daemons on Linux, which is used instead of SystemV Init (sysvinit). A feature of systemd is intensive paralleling of the startup services during the boot process, which significantly speeds up the launch of the operating system.
')
In the period between October 2013 and February 2014, the technical committee's mailing list was in fierce debate on which initialization system to use in Debian 8. The result of the debate was the third vote in February of this year, when systemd was chosen as the initialization system. Soon, Mark Shuttleworth announced his desire to use systemd in Ubuntu, although he had previously treated the project negatively.
The decision to use systemd in Debian has been criticized by the community. Developers are accused of violating the principles of Unix philosophy and overconfidence.
The architecture of the project is compared with how Microsoft Windows is built; it literally says that systemd is the new svchost of Linux operating systems. Nor do Lennart Pottering's proposals continually expand functionality: the systemd daemon takes on too many functions and limits the freedom of development.
In April, a campaign against systemd began, the resource boycottsystemd.com was launched. A group of people who call themselves "experienced Unix admins" opened a debianfork.org site calling for a Debian fork.
And the fork finally happened. These events are not a demonstration of the weakness of open source software solutions. On the contrary, it shows once again how easily anyone can change the OS to suit their tastes. This is only possible due to the free nature of Linux.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/363641/
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