Welcome to Devuan Jessie 1.0 Beta

Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd. Its Beta release marks an important milestone towards the sustainability and the continuation of Devuan as a universal base distribution.

Devuan Jessie provides continuity as a safe upgrade path from Wheezy and a flawless switch from Jessie that ensures the right to Init Freedom and avoids entanglement.

Since the Exodus declaration in 2014, infrastructure has been put in place to support Devuan’s mission to offer users control over their system.

A simple way to spell “Devuan” is “dev dash one dot org”: dev-one.org and dev-1.org point here.

Devuan aliases its releases using minor planet names as codenames.

current stable is “Jessie” (planet nr.10464)
current testing is “Ascii” (planet nr.3568)
unstable is “Ceres” (planet nr.1)

To avoid censorship and blocks to the Internet, this website is also accessible using Tor at the address http://devuanzuwu3xoqwp.onion

Download

Devuan stable releases can be downloaded from files.devuan.org.

The preferred way to download is to use our release torrent (). The torrent contains all files for a given release. You can select what files to download if you have limited bandwidth or storage. Please seed if you can (~10GB)!

Devuan file names follow the release naming scheme.

Install instructions are also available for a growing number of platforms.

Devuan Release Archive Mirrors

HTTP mirror up on mirror.leaseweb.com
HTTP mirror up on linkagile.eu
HTTP mirror up on devuan.linkagile.eu
HTTP mirror up on devuan.ksx4system.net
HTTP mirror up on tux.rainside.sk
HTTP mirror up on nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan
HTTP mirror up on devuan.c3l.lu
HTTP mirror up on neo900.files.dev-1.org
HTTP mirror up on devuan.4isp.it
FTP mirror up on mirror.leaseweb.com
FTP mirror up on ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/devuan
RSYNC mirror up on mirror.leaseweb.com::devuan
RSYNC mirror up on ftp.nluug.nl::devuan
RSYNC mirror up on devuan.lucylaika.ovh::devuan

Distributions based on Devuan

Various operating system distributions have already started adopting Devuan as a base OS.

Here below a list in order of chronological appearance

Gnuinos http://gnuinos.org
Refracta http://www.ibiblio.org/refracta
Nelum-dev1 https://sourceforge.net/projects/nelum-dev1
Star https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix
Zephyr https://sourceforge.net/projects/zephyrlinux

Packages

The package repositories for Devuan are exclusive and they should not be used in addition to Debian:

deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie          main
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-updates  main
deb http://auto.mirror.devuan.org/merged jessie-security main

We provide access to our package repository also via Tor: install apt-transport-tor and then use the following hidden services

deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie          main
deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie-updates  main
deb tor+http://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/merged jessie-security main

Here a list of packages we have forked from Debian
Here the packages specifically built for Devuan
And here the infamous blacklisted packages

Search packages

Documentation

Chillfan’s aka dev1fanboy wiki
Friends of Devuan community wiki
STUDY category On Devuan Discourse
All posts tagged as documentation
Frequently Asked Questions
Serious drafts for the Devuan Project

Communication Channels

Engage in our forum:
Subscribe to our mailing lists:
- Announce to receive official announcements
- Discuss to debate Devuan specific issues
- DNG for more debates on systemd-free living
Join the #devuan IRC channel (publicly archived)
Send a private email to

All contact options