Devuan GNU+Linux is a Linux distribution forked from Debian in 2015. The project's primary goal is to provide a variant of Debian without the complexities and dependencies of systemd, an init system and services manager originally developed by Red Hat and later adopted by most other Linux distributions. Devuan's initial beta release was made available in April 2016, together with an upgrade path from Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" and a possibility to switch to Devuan from Debian 8.0 "Jessie". The distribution adopted Xfce as its default desktop.

• Devuan GNU+Linux 6.0.0
• Devuan GNU+Linux 5.0.0
• Devuan GNU+Linux 4.0.0
• Devuan GNU+Linux 3.1.0
• Devuan GNU+Linux 3.0.0

Running Devuan Ceres (unstable) for two years on all my machines. Everything works and I'm amazed by how close to upstream these packages are. As of this review, I got the 5.16 kernel and haven't had any issues. Nonetheless, I installed Apt-listbugs, just to be safe. Updating your packages is super easy with the help of Amprolla. Devuan maintains a list of banned packages to prevent the bloated horror that is Systemd from making its way onto your systems, and packages that have some Systemd parts to them are either banned alongside or forked by Devuan and will be distributed to you shortly.