the Devuan beowulf package versions will stop changing (ie, become stable) on the 6th of July.
That's true for about 95% of the packages - the ones we get from debian and don't change.
Some of the devuanized packages will still be changing after that, but a lot of the important stuff has already been done. (like policykit, elogind, eudev)
Some data points...
- Our first release was 2 years behind debian.
- Our second release was a year behind debian.
Some opinion...
I think the trend will continue and third release will be six months or less behind debian. The installer isos are the last thing to get debugged before the actual release date. The system is usable well before that.
yes, but before ASCII was stable, I was on buster (dual-boot win, deb, dev). BAsically, what I'm asking, when did or will Beowulf become safer to use than ceres
Most likely when Devuan announces that Beowulf is out of testing phase and into stable. Unless im mistaken but im sure release model is the same as Debian, sid/ceres will always be unstable, buster/beowulf currently in testing.
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I don't know that there is an "exact" answer to that. However, for me Beowulf took a major turn toward stability a few months ago when libelogind was presented. Since then, I have had only theme (xfce) related problems which were minor. Now, when the Network-Manager packages get sanitized, then I will remove the ascii block on them and then I will be 100% beowulf.
But since Ceres has been working so well for so long, I will only be using my Beowulf partition if and when ceres stumbles.
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