On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 10:48:20 +0100
Veteran Unix Admins <free...@devuan.org> wrote:

> Dear dev1rs
> 
> the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!
> 
> On February 14th 2015, Devuan unveiled a "pre-alpha" Valentine release
> of Devuan Jessie [1] just a few months after the Veteran Unix Admins
> declared their intention to fork Debian on November 27th 2014 [2].
> That was the beginning of our collective journey. Now, three years
> later, Valentine's day has more love for the Devuan community.  The
> long-awaited release of Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta (minor planet nr. 3568)
> is here!
> 
> ## So what's new in Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta?
> 
> - OpenRC is installable using the expert install path
>    (thanks Maemo Leste!)
> 
> - eudev has replaced systemd-udev (thanks Gentoo!)
> 
> - elogind has been added as an alternative to consolekit
>   (thanks Gentoo!)
> 
> - Desktop users can choose among fully functional XFCE (Default), KDE,
>   Cinnamon, LXQT, MATE, and LXDE desktops
> 
> - CLI-oriented users can select the "Console productivity" task that
>   installs a fully-featured set of console-based utils and tools.
> 
> - A .vdi disk image is now provided for use with VirtualBox.
> 
> - ARM board kernels have been updated to 4.14 and 4.15 for most
>   boards.

Holy cow, you're leaving Debian behind. Our own udev and consolekit
replacements! Very, very nice!

SteveT
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