Old school enough to favor Debian, but averse to systemd? Good news: Devuan 6 "Excalibur" is here, and all you need to do is draw it from the stone master its installer.

Devuan 6, codenamed after the legendary King Arthur's equally legendary sword, was released this week . Version 6 is the Devuan project's version of Debian 13 "Trixie" . As the release notes say:

Devuan 6 Excalibur is based on Debian 13 Trixie. Much of the information in Debian's Release Notes is relevant and useful. They should be consulted alongside this document.

The Devuan live media defaults to Xfce – an appropriately no-nonsense choice. - Click to enlarge

This is essentially the same OS as Debian 13, but with Agent P's sprawling "system and service manager" surgically removed, along with any packages that are so

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