Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate
by duskwuff on Saturday April 22, 2017 @03:43PM
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As I noted on another thread, the choice to call their initial release "Jessie" is also bizarre -- that's the same as the release name for Debian 8.0, which was released in 2015. Between that and the project name (which is a typo of "Debian"), it all makes the project look like it's intentionally trying to create confusion between itself and Debian, rather than trying to succeed on its own merits.
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Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate
by nextime on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:58PM
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The name "devuan" has been selected cause it's a merge of "debian" and "VUA" where "VUA" stand for "Veteran Unix Admins", the name of the group that started the fork.
It has to be pronounced as this: http://danex.nexlab.it/devuan.wav
The first release has been named "jessie" cause it's a 1:1 replacement of debian jessie, and for our luck jessie is also a name of a minor planet, so, it match our nomenclature and reflect that is a very close path to switch from debian jessie, as Devuan consider itself the "real" continuation of debian after wheezy.
Re:Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate
by hfjfktnc on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:58PM
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Well, their release is essentially Debian Jessie with a few defaults modified (have the "init" meta-package depend on sysvinit instead of systemd), a few packages removed (systemd-sysv) and a few packages rebuilt to not depend on libsystemd (to no longer optionally support additional integration under systemd for freedom reasons).
Keep in mind that they originally wanted to release their version on Jessie in early 2015...