:: Re: [DNG] Devuan ready VPS?
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著者: Emiliano Marini
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To: Adam Borowski
CC: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] Devuan ready VPS?
Yep, but often they compile and ship they're own flavours of Debian using
custom kernels, and pointing apt to their own repos.

Have someone tried a migration to Devuan on a DigitalOcean droplet?

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@???> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:09:54PM -0300, Emiliano Marini wrote:
> > >> I wonder if there is already any VPS provider supporting Devuan?
> > >
> > > You can rent a VPS with Debian and migrate to Devuan following this
> guide:
> > > https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/
> > > wikis/Upgrade-to-Devuan
> >
> > Not viable on most VPS providers, specially if they use OpenVZ or custom
> > kernels/filesystems on the VMs. That's only possible under a full
> > virtualisation platform.
>
> Only if you'd want your own kernel. Debian/Devuan has pretty loose
> requirements for the kernel: for jessie, it needs to be 2.6.32+, and unless
> you run systemd, only a few config options are required.
>
> And then, requirements for a vserver/openvz/lxc guest are way less sharp
> than for the host.
>
> Case in point: my only Devuan install is inside a lxc VM, on kernel
> 4.12.0-rc3 + a crapload of patches, own config, built with a compiler not
> even in jessie (nor in stretch), yet everything seems to work fine.
>
> And Devuan's kernel is bit-for-bit identical to that shipped with Debian:
> it's not even recompiled.
>
>
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