Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Version 4.0 of the Devuan distribution has been released; it is code-named Chimaera. This release is based on Debian Bullseye, has improved desktop support, and benefits from more accessibility work. See the release notes for details.

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From:		Mason Loring Bliss <mason-AT-blisses.org>
To:		dng-AT-lists.dyne.org
Subject:		[DNG] Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!
Date:		Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:00:33 -0400
Message-ID:		<20211014150032.GI6168@blisses.org>
Archive-link:		Article

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,

Devuan Developers are pleased to announce the release of Devuan Chimaera
4.0 as the project's newest stable release. This is the result of lots of
painstaking work by the team and extensive testing by the wider Devuan
community.

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What's new in Chimaera 4.0?

    * Based on Debian Bullseye (11.1) with Linux kernel 5.10.
    * Your choice of init: sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC.
    * Improved desktop support - virtually all desktop environments available
      in Debian are now part of Devuan, systemd-free.
    * New boot, display manager and desktop theming.
    * Enhanced accessibility: installation via GUI or console can now be
      accomplished via software or hardware speech synthesis, or using a
      refreshable braille display, and Devuan Chimaera has the ability to
      install desktop environments without PulseAudio, allowing speech
      synthesis in both console and GUI sessions at the same time.

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Installation and Documentation

Whether you are upgrading an existing Devuan install, migrating from Debian
or installing from scratch, instructions and guidance can be found online:

    https://devuan.org/os/install
    https://devuan.org/get-devuan.

Packages, netboot images and installation media are available through a
resilient network of http package mirrors, http, https, ftp and rsync iso
mirrors, torrent and magnet.

Please take time to read the Release Notes. They include important
configuration information and tips to help your install or upgrade go as
smoothly as possible.

    https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/Release_notes.txt

For the impatient, you can go straight to the package and sources.list
information or the installation media downloads:

    https://devuan.org/os/packages
    http://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/

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Resources and Support

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

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After Chimaera

The next Devuan release, 5.0, is codenamed Daedalus. Repositories are
already available for the adventurous to test.

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Appreciation

We wish to thank all of you for the incredible support given to Devuan.
Without your help and feedback, Devuan could not be the reliable and
versatile distribution that it is.

To support the Devuan project you can examine our financial reports and
donate at:

    https://devuan.org/donate

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                           Live long and prosper!
                        The Devuan Development Team 
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Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 14, 2021 20:12 UTC (Thu) by dullfire (guest, #111432) [Link] (5 responses)

sweetness.

If the devuan dev's hang out here, thanks, its always appreciated.

Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 15, 2021 23:32 UTC (Fri) by developer122 (guest, #152928) [Link] (1 responses)

Indeed! Your work is very much appreciated! Hopefully as the userbase grows more applications will be developed with compatibility in mind.

The only machine I'm currently held back from running it on is my NAS, as it doesn't seem to play nice with OpenZFS.

Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 16, 2021 16:57 UTC (Sat) by jmclnx (guest, #72456) [Link]

Quote: "more applications will be developed with compatibility in mind."

Yes that is my hope too. In my *uneducated* opinion, my distro of choice seems to be having many issues trying to work around setting in upstream packages that conflict with its own philosophy on how the distro should act.

Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 17, 2021 3:09 UTC (Sun) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link] (2 responses)

Do Devuan developers patch GNOME heavily to make it work without systemd? If so that work would be worthwhile for people in other OSes running GNOME as well

Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 19, 2021 7:59 UTC (Tue) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link] (1 responses)

But gnome upstream will never accept such patches.

Devuan 4.0 (Chimaera) released

Posted Oct 19, 2021 13:31 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

> But gnome upstream will never accept such patches.

That assertion may or may not be true but if there are patches, bringing visibility to them is helpful, patches can be shared even if upstream doesn't accept them.