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Article from Issue 201/2017

Ubuntu 17.04 (32-bit Live) and Devuan 1.0 (64-bit Live)

Ubuntu 17.04 (32-bit Live)

"Zesty Zapus" is the latest release of this popular Debian-based distro [1]. Changes and improvements include:

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Devuan 1.0.0

In 2014, the Debian project decided to replace the old init system with systemd, but a small group of developers resisted, forking Debian to start the systemd-free Devuan. We decided to take a look at Devuan 1.0.0, the first stable release.

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