hpr2064 :: Test-Driving Devuan

Frank Bell takes Devuan Beta out for a spin.

Hosted by Frank Bell on 2016-06-30 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Devuan, Debian, SystemD, SysV.
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Frank Bell takes the Devuan Beta for a test drive and finds it accelerates smoothly, corners nicely, and rides comfortably.

Links:

Debian’s SystemD Announcement: https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd
The Devuan fork announcement: https://devuan.org/os/debian-fork/
Announcement of the Beta: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/29/systemd_free_debian_fork_devuan_reaches_beta/ Approx. one year behind schedule.
Devuan website: https://devuan.org/
Debian website: https://www.debian.org/
Some news stories about the Debian SystemD controversy:
- PCWorld: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2841873/meet-systemd-the-controversial-project-taking-over-a-linux-distro-near-you.html
- ZDNet: http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-linuxs-systemd/
- Technet: http://www.tecmint.com/systemd-replaces-init-in-linux/
- ADTMag’s Dev Watch blog: https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2014/11/debian-problems.aspx
- Linux Voice Interview with Leonart Poettering: https://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/

Comments

Comment #1 posted on 2016-07-19T16:38:15Z by Krayon

SLiM

FYI: SLiM (_S_imple _L_og_i_n _M_anager) should allow you to cycle through
the available DM's by pressing the F1 key. You simply stop on your desired DM,
then login.

SLiM config within /etc/ somewhere ( /etc/slim.conf or /etc/slim/slim.conf
probably) can be used to define the choices.

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