The "Devuan" Debian fork

A group of developers has announced the existence of a fork of the Debian distribution called "Devuan." "First mid-term goal is to produce a reliable and minimalist base distribution that stays away from the homogenization and lock-in promoted by systemd. This distribution should be ready about the time Debian Jessie is ready and will constitute a seamless alternative to its dist-upgrade. As of today, the only ones resisting are the Slackware and Gentoo distributions, but we need to provide a solid ground also for apt-get based distributions. All project on the downstream side of Debian that are concerned by the systemd avalanche are welcome to keep an eye on our initiative and evaluate it as an alternative base."

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