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KatolaZ

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Registered: 2017-03-11

Posts: 79  

Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Dear Init Freedom Lovers

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is finally
available.

Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal,
stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and promotes
alternatives to systemd and its components.

Devuan 2.0 ASCII runs on several architectures. Installer CD and DVD
ISOs, as well as desktop-live and minimal-live ISOs, are available for
i386 and amd64. Ready-to-use images can be downloaded for a number of
ARM platforms and SOCs, including Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, OrangePi,
BananaPi, OLinuXino, Cubieboard, Nokia and Motorola mobile phones, and
several Chromebooks, as well as for Virtualbox/QEMU/Vagrant.

The Devuan 2.0 ASCII installer ISOs offer a variety of Desktop
Environments including Xfce, KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, LXQt, with others
available post-install. The expert install mode now offers a choice
of either SysVinit or OpenRC as init system.  In addition, there are
options for "Console productivity" with hundreds of CLI and TUI utils,
as well as a minimal base system ideal for servers. The minimal-live
image provides a full-featured console-based system with a particular
focus on accessibility.

The desktop-live images are the recommended option for people wanting
to explore and easily install Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable, and also for the
press and those interested in reviewing the default Xfce desktop.

The efforts of Devuan developers are now focused on the third Devuan
release codenamed Beowulf (Planet nr. 38086). Preliminary installer
images should be ready for testing soon.

We would like to thank the entire Devuan community for the continued
support, feedback, and collaboration.

## Download

Devuan 2.0 ASCII images are available for download at:
    http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/ 
and from the ISO mirrors listed at:
    http://devuan.org/get-devuan
The latter URL also includes information about the official Devuan package
repositories.

## Release Notes

Devuan 2.0 Stable Release notes include brief installation and upgrading
instructions, as well information on desktop session management with the
introduction of eudev and elogind, and on the new mirror network accessible
through "deb.devuan.org".

The Devuan ASCII release notes are available at:
    https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt

## Upgrade

Direct and easy upgrade paths from Devuan Jessie, Debian Jessie, and Debian
Stretch to Devuan 2.0 ASCII are available.

Upgrade from Devuan Jessie:
    https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev … e-to-ascii
Migrate from Debian Jessie or Stretch:
    https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev … e-to-ascii

The following will be enough to upgrade if you are already using Devuan
ASCII Beta or Devuan ASCII RC:
    apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

## Devuan Derivatives

Devuan is a reliable base system chosen as a base by many derivative
distributions. We are proud of the growing community of enthusiastic
developers benefiting from Devuan, and would like to acknowledge some
recent efforts based on Devuan ASCII:

Refracta: an installable live for home computing and rescue tasks
http://sf.net/projects/refracta

MIYO: featuring an Awesome desktop https://sf.net/projects/miyolinux/

FluXuan: built around Fluxbox http://fluxuan.sourceforge.io/

Maemo Leste: for mobile phones and tablets, including Nokia N900/N950, Motorola
Droid 4, Allwinner, and more https://maemo-leste.github.io/

DecodeOS: to build micro-services on anonymous network clusters over hidden Tor
services https://decodeos.dyne.org/

A list with more Devuan derivatives can be found at:
    https://devuan.org/os/partners/devuan-distros

## Services offering Devuan

Devuan is a snappy, stable base for virtual server applications. Several providers
offer ready-to-install Devuan images on their platforms, including:

Data Center Light: operated by a bunch of cool folks keen to give back to the
Devuan community. They have organised Devuan hackatons and have had special
offers in place on Devuan VMs https://devuanhosting.com

OpenNebula: which offers Devuan ASCII guest images off their marketplace and
for free http://marketplace.opennebula.org

## Contact

Mailing list: https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m … stinfo/dng
IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev (Freenode) 
Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org
Press contact: freedom@devuan.org
Source code: https://git.devuan.org
Bug tracker: https://bugs.devuan.org
Popularity contest: https://popcon.devuan.org
Package information: https://pkginfo.devuan.org

## Appreciation

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to this development
effort, which continues to make Devuan a useful and reliable base distribution as
well as a pleasant and cooperative community.

To support the Devuan project you can donate at:
    https://devuan.org/donate (includes financial reports)
or take up one of the tasks listed at:
    https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1380#p1380

happy hacking ;^)

devuser

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Registered: 2018-04-30

Posts: 176  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congrats dev team!

catprints

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Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 145  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Great work! Inadequate words to express truly fine efforts. Devuan Devs, Thank you.

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MiyoLinux

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Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 1,323  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

HOORAY!!!

Thank you to the VUAs for all of their tireless efforts!

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Veni, vidi, vici vdevuaned. I came, I saw, I Devuaned.

Panopticon

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Registered: 2018-01-27

Posts: 306  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Well done devs, i would take my hat off to you if i wore one alas its a hoodie

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 174  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You have done a fantastic job, dear VUAs, and THANK YOU for that.
You have secured, and shown to us, how to keep the way and the future of Linux what it once was: free, stable, reliable, - simply the best.
I take my hat off to you, also because I can..... I'm a hat wearer. ;-) André

Nili

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Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 230  

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Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congratulation and thanks for everything you have done.

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sgage

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Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 341  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
You have done a fantastic job, dear VUAs, and THANK YOU for that.
You have secured, and shown to us, how to keep the way and the future of Linux what it once was: free, stable, reliable, - simply the best.
I take my hat off to you, also because I can..... I'm a hat wearer. ;-) André

I just put on my hat in order to be able to take my hat off to the VUAs :-)

A wonderful milestone! Onward!

zephyr

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From: as where the crow flies native

Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 422  

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Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Yippppeeee!!!!

cheers

zephyr

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felix-j

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Registered: 2018-06-09

Posts: 1  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Big thanks to the whole Devuan team!

ncbeachbum

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Registered: 2018-05-10

Posts: 5  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Devuan Devs you Rock!!!!!

libretux

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2018-04-25

Posts: 6  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Excellent work, team.
Thank you for all

78bash

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Registered: 2018-05-10

Posts: 1  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congrats people!!

Quick question, what's the correct ISO to flash an OrangePi with?

yeti

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From: I'm not here: U R halucinating

Registered: 2017-02-23

Posts: 334  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congrats people!!

Quick question, what's the correct ISO to flash an OrangePi with?

Quick answer: Look into https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/e … README.txt.

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rivenathos

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Registered: 2016-12-10

Posts: 7  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congratulations are extended to all involved in the development of Devuan!

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Lomax

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2018-02-06

Posts: 76  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Awesome news guys - congratulations, and thanks for all your hard work!

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ivanovnegro

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Registered: 2018-05-15

Posts: 57  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Congratulations!

Happy computing to everybody.

pj1967

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Registered: 2017-06-24

Posts: 18  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Awesome, devs!!!!  THX for your hard work!!!

ChuangTzu

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Registered: 2018-06-13

Posts: 148  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Longtime Slackware and Debian user trying out Devuan 2.0, so far it looks like you guys did a great job.

StevenB

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Registered: 2019-04-10

Posts: 2  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Hey gals and guys, also wanted to express my gratitude for your hard work. Currently running Beowulf on a Dell XPS 13 with joy and satisfaction. The Dell installed Ubuntu 18.04 sucked big balls. With Beowulf it's smooth sailing ;-)

Last edited by StevenB (2019-04-12 18:10:58)

golinux

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Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Welcome StevenB!

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crankypuss

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Registered: 2018-09-15

Posts: 58  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Dear Init Freedom Lovers

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is finally
available.

Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal,
stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and promotes
alternatives to systemd and its components.

...tl/dr

happy hacking ;^)

Okay, for stupid guys like me who are already running Devuan ascii, do we need to *do* anything to upgrade to 2.0 stable, or will this happen as a result of regular updates?  Really, i'm old, i only have a few years left for reading instructions! <g>

sgage

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Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 341  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Dear Init Freedom Lovers

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

We are happy to announce that Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable is finally
available.

Devuan is a GNU+Linux distribution committed to providing a universal,
stable, dependable, free software operating system that uses and promotes
alternatives to systemd and its components.

...tl/dr

happy hacking ;^)

Okay, for stupid guys like me who are already running Devuan ascii, do we need to *do* anything to upgrade to 2.0 stable, or will this happen as a result of regular updates?  Really, i'm old, i only have a few years left for reading instructions! <g>

CP, this is not some breaking news - That announcement was made last June, when Devuan 2.0 Ascii went from testing to officially stable. How/when did you install ascii? If you've been doing updates all along, you're on the latest.

crankypuss

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Registered: 2018-09-15

Posts: 58  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

I'm not sure why i thought it was a new post.  Getting used to the forum software i guess.  Sorry.

alupoj

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Registered: 2019-01-25

Posts: 80  

Re: Devuan 2.0 ASCII Stable

Thank you very much for returning us the good old Debian as it was in its versions till 5 (Lenny) before it was gradually occupied by systemD corps. I do not treat debian.org true Debian anymore, real free Debian is here at devuan.org now.

Why not to add a Libre (deblobed) kernel directly to Devuan distro? It would make Devuan even more free than it already is and may be even more free than Debian 5 Lenny was.

The same as:
deb mirror://linux-libre.fsfla.org/pub/linux-libre/freesh/mirrors.txt

I run this kernel with Ascii and it is awesome!

After this is done it would be easier for distros without non-free components like EterTICs and Dyne:bolic to maintain them.

Trinity desktop environment would be welcome very much too.

Actually I miss these two things in your repository: Libre kernel & Trinity DE. Like it could be in Exe & EterTICs simultaneously.

Last edited by alupoj (2019-05-08 08:30:42)