Hi Jude,
thanks for the bunch of information, especially the various project
links, this brings some light to my questions.
To get a feeling about the status quo, I will start playing with the
vagrant image and then be back here.
For the infrastructure things, I will follow up directly in gitlab.
Regards
Udo
On 03/16/2015 11:30 PM, Jude Nelson wrote:
> Hi Udo,
>
> I'm not part of the VUA, and what I'm about to say is by no means
> comprehensive or official.
>
> I'd say things are looking up for Devuan:
> * The Devuan package repository is available at
> http://apt.devuan.org/devuan. I think the current plan is to mirror
> Debian's repositories and copy in Devuan's systemd-free variants (i.e.
> for util-linux, dbus, etc.).
> * There's an i386 Vagrant image released for pre-alpha testing
> (see https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/try-devuan-on-vagrant).
> * There's a Devuan SDK available that lets you build Devuan installer
> ISOs in a fairly straight-forward manner, as well as manage builds of
> Devuan-specific packages.
>
> Also, I think a lot of the development conversation has moved to IRC.
> The logs are at https://botbot.me/freenode/devuan/
>
> There are also some interesting projects aimed at building long-term
> replacements for systemd components:
> * LoginKit (replaces systemd-logind).
> https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/loginkit
> * libsysdev (replaces libudev). https://github.com/idunham/libsysdev
> * vdev (replaces udevd). https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev (DISCLAIMER:
> I'm the author)
>
> Insofar as what needs doing, there's a pre-alpha ISO floating around
> (Valentine pre-alpha), and the Vagrant image could always use more
> testing and bug reports. There's also a list of infrastructure to-dos
> here: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/todo/issues.
>
> Hope this helps,
> -Jude
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Udo Rader <listudo@???
> <mailto:listudo@bestsolution.at>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> short preface: the idea of systemd running on our ~100 servers causes me
> more than serious headache and so, like many others, I am interested in
> having a viable alternative to this madness.
>
> Unfortunately I was not very successful finding out how Devuan is doing
> - despite having done my homework digging both through the website and
> the ML archives. The best I came up with is the announcement of a spring
> (alpha?) release.
>
> I am not asking the evil "when will it be done" question, instead I am
> asking how I could possibly help to get things going :)
>
> You could very likely call me a Linux veteran with almost 20 years
> playing the game and in a (now very remote) past I even did some
> packaging for Mandriva. For the past 10 years almost every server we
> have been provisioning is based on Debian and so I know that beast quite
> well, but I have never been involved with Debian as an organization.
>
> My daily job is devops oriented, with the dev side focusing mostly on
> Java and the ops side planning and partially maintaining our
> infrastructure.
>
> So what are the areas that require additional help?
>
> Regards
>
> Udo
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