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Author: Martin Steigerwald
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism
Hendrik Boom - 31.10.18, 01:49:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:53:03PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:01:03 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message
> >
> > <20181030180103.7xwhnvyqbs6zntgg@???>:
> > > I use Devuan on a Purism laptop. Purism's OS is based on Debian,
> > > and
> > > has become contaminated with systemd.
> >
> > ..they blindly accepted it?
>
> Don't know how blind they were. I suspect they had started as a
> Debian derivative and didn't have the resources to jump ship. Though
> I suspect merging their changes into devuan would have been
> feasible...
>
> Now they're working on a Purism phone. They do seem to intend it to
> work with a variety of GNU/Linux systems. They're currently hoping
> to get some developers to adapt their free software to Purism's
> mobile hardware.


AFAIR Purism also contact both the KDE and GNOME communities about
adapting their desktops. Maybe some developers got test machines.

--
Martin