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Oh? Took em that long?

• duskwuff 10y ago
  And why did they have to call it "Jessie"? That's the code name Debian used for their 8.0 release in 2015. Come on... if you're going to fork a distribution, use different release names.
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  • tgragnato 10y ago
    > https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/devuan-codenames https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/devuan-co... They call Jessie a "Matching release", I guess the intention is to stress the fact that you can safely migrate from Debian without a reinstall.
    • lomnakkus 10y ago
      They missed an opportunity there. Should have been "jessie-j". ... but I actually agree with duskwuff. It's hugely confusing and possibly even disingenuous to call it "jessie".
      • dane-pgp 10y ago
        Devuan "jessie" is designed to match Debian "jessie" as much as possible, and is a one-off copying of the release name in order to mark the branching point in the histories of the two distros as they diverge slightly over time. As the release announcement says: "Devuan is the Debian that was and could have been. Our goal is to provide a viable and sustainable alternative. It is a new path, nurtured with your help and support." so Devuan could be considered the true inheritor of the "jessie" name, and of the name "Debian", for that matter, although keeping that would obviously be too confusing.
        • lomnakkus 10y ago
          Well, yes, I think we all got that point. It's just that Google's search bot may not. I'd be absolutely fine with something mechanically derived from "Jessie" (etc).