Installer
This disc is one of several installation options for the Devuan GNU+Linux distribution. Devuan offers an extensive collection of original and modified Debian as well as Devuan-specific packages. It is a complete Operating System (OS) for your computer. And it is free as in 'freedom'.
An Operating System (OS) is a set of programs that provide an interface to the computer's hardware. Resource, device, power, and memory management belong to the OS. The core of the OS in charge of operating the circuitry and managing peripherals is called the kernel. The default flavor of Devuan comes with Linux. Most of the basic operating system tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU+Linux.
Devuan is available for various kinds of computers, like PC compatible hardware (i386 and amd64) and ARM targets (armel, armhf, arm64) such as the allwinner flavour of SBCs and some ASUS chromebooks.
To make installation easier on some systems requiring proprietary but redistributable firmware, Devuan provides this non-free firmware but it is only installed with the user's consent.
You can install Devuan GNU+Linux either alongside your current OS or as the only OS on your computer.
An Installation Guide is included on this disc at docs/install-ascii.html and also online at https://devuan.org/os/documentation/ or Upgrade Install Devuan Wiki (some translations available).
You can start the installation program easily by booting your computer with CD/DVD or from USB. Note that some very old or very new systems may not support this.
After installing or upgrading, Devuan's packaging system can use CDs, DVDs, local collections, or networked servers (FTP, HTTP) to automatically install software from (.deb packages). This is done preferably with the 'apt'and 'aptitude'programs.
You can install packages from the commandline using apt-get. For example, if you want to install the packages 'openssh-client'and 'xlennart', you can give the command:
apt-get install openssh-client xlennart
Note that you don't have to enter the complete path, or the '.deb'extension. 'Apt'will figure this out itself.
Or use aptitude for a full screen interactive selection of available Devuan packages.
The default desktop provided by classic installer-iso images shouldn’t be considered the way to use Devuan on the desktop. A growing number of derivative distributions have already adopted Devuan as a base OS. When considering Devuan, we do recommend taking derivatives into consideration. They harness the power of our base distribution by targeting specific usage. This is exactly what we mean to achieve with Devuan. This list is in order of chronological appearance:
You are completely free to manufacture and re-distribute CDs/DVDs of the Devuan GNU+Linux Operating System as well as respins like these.
This is an official release of the Devuan system. Please report any bugs you find to the Devuan Bug Tracking System.
If you're reporting bugs against this disc or the installation system, please also mention the version of this disc; this can be found in the file /.disk/info.
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