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![]() Devuan with its default XFCE desktop running on a virtual machine (2023-08) | |
Developer | Veteran Unix Admins |
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OS family | Linux (Unix-like) |
Working state | Current |
Source model | Open source |
Initial release | May 3, 2016[1] |
Latest release | 5.0.0[2] ![]() |
Repository | |
Package manager | APT (dpkg) |
Platforms | i386, amd64, ARM, ppc64el |
Kernel type | Monolithic (Linux kernel) |
Userland | GNU |
Default user interface | Xfce |
License | Various open source licenses[note 1] |
Official website | www |
Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution that uses sysvinit, runit or OpenRC instead of systemd.[3][4][5][6] Devuan aims to avoid "lock-in" by projects like systemd[7][8] and aims to maintain compatibility with other init systems to avoid detaching Linux from other Unix systems.
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