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 <kilob...@angband.pl> 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. > > > Meow! > -- > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ A tit a day keeps the vet away. > ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ (Rejoice as my small-animal-murder-machine got unbroken after > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ nearly two years of no catch!) > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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