Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable, a systemd-free Debian GNU/Linux 9 fork has been released

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/dev1fanboy/upgrade-to-ascii
Migrate from Debian Jessie or Stretch:
https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-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/mailman/listinfo/dng
IRC: #devuan #devuan-dev (Freenode)
Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org
Press contact: freedom@???
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 ;^)

  Devuan GNU+Linux 2.0 ASCII Stable released