Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities
The team of self-described “veteran Unix admins” who opposed Debian’s adoption of systemd instead of sysvinit init, have released a fourth version of their alternative Linux distro, “Devuan”. Devuan Chimaera 4.0 is based on Debian 11.1, and version 5.10 of the Linux Kernel. That version of the kernel enjoys long-term support until 2026, and Debian 11.1 will also be tended to until that year. Devuan’s devs are clearly thinking long-term! The new release delivers on Devuan’s vision of init freedom by offering users a choice between sysvinit, runit, and OpenRC. The default desktop is Xfce, but Cinnamon, KDE, LXQt, and MATE are available as alternatives.
