"Devuan Jessie 1.0 RC" on HN yesterday: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167447" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167447</a><p>For those who forgot what Devuan was, like i did – basically a Debian fork without systemd.
"Devuan can be adopted as a flawless upgrade path from both Debian
Wheezy and Jessie."<p>That <i>is</i> nice, to have a supported path of simply add sources, signing keys and apt-get dist-upgrade. Impressive work.<p>I'm personally not convinced there's a viable near future for Linux without systemd (not counting the mess that is android (as a potential workstation / server distro) - I think Debian/kFreeBSD is a better path.<p>But I'd love to be wrong.
Here's the official web page for that announcement at Devuan.org.<p><a href="https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-candidate-announce-042017" rel="nofollow">https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/stable-candidate-announce-...</a>
I never understand when OSS projects give themselves names that will never go mainstream. If the goal is semi-popularity at least, then "Devuan" will not work.