FREE AS IN MYTHICAL CREATURES
Devuan 4.0 “Chimaera”
MIN SPECS: 1GB RAM, 10GB DISK, LESS WITHOUT A GUI
64-bit
W e haven’t given much attention to Devuan lately, which is remiss of us because it’s surely the world’s premier Systemd-free distro. Devuan offers a choice of the old (sysvinit), the new (runit) and the inbetween (OpenRC). Besides that, it’s based on Debian 11.1, features a 5.10 series kernel and can now run “virtually all” desktop environments in the Debian repositories. This is good because we still see unenlightened tech journalists bashing Gnome for being dependent on Systemd, when Gnome has for many years been fully functional through elogind, the Systemd-free login daemon.