Welcome to Devuan

Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd that offers users control over their system by avoiding unnecessary entanglements and ensuring Init Freedom. Devuan’s stable release is now 2.0.0 ASCII. The 1.0.0 Jessie release (LTS) has moved to oldstable status.

Devuan aliases its releases using minor planet names as codenames. Devuan files follow this release naming scheme.

Get Devuan

• Mirrors
• Release torrent
• magnet link

The torrent contains all files for a given release. You can select which files to download if you have limited bandwidth or storage. Please seed if you can (~21GB)!

Install Devuan

• ASCII Release Notes
• Install ASCII
• Upgrade from Jessie to ASCII
• Migrate from Debian Jessie to ASCII

ISO Guide

• desktop-live: Explore the default Xfce desktop before installing. Can be installed easily and quickly from the live session using the refractainstaller. Firmware is available if needed.
• netinst: All-purpose installer preferred by more experienced users for servers, minimal systems and choice of several Desktop Environments (DEs). All but the core components are downloaded during the installation process. Internet connection and available bandwidth needed. The “expert install” allows to opt out of firmware installation. A simple install will provide firmware.
• DVD: Provides more software and desktop choices than the netinst. Saves bandwidth for multiple off-line installations.
• CDROM set: Also for offline installation with a minimal XFCE desktop. Has a smaller footprint than the DVD.
• minimal-live: A full-featured console-based recovery tool with a focus on accessibility for visually-impaired and blind users. Uses the refractainstaller.
• embedded: Ready-to-flash images suitable for various ARM boards.
• virtual: Ready-to-use qcow, vagrant and vbox images make it easy to get up and running on the Virtual Machine of your choice.

Distributions based on Devuan

The default desktop provided by classic installer-iso images shouldn’t be considered the only way to use Devuan on the desktop. A number of derivatives have already adopted Devuan as a base. When reviewing Devuan we do recommend taking them into consideration. They harness the power of our base distribution by targeting specific usage which is exactly what we hope to achieve with Devuan.

Resource Channels

Please use these support channels to troubleshoot technical issues, ask questions or file a bug.

• Participate in our web forum: dev1galaxy.org
• Join us on Freenode IRC: #devuan and more
• Read and search IRC logs: publicly archived here
• Discuss Devuan on the DNG mail list: Subscribe
• Developers gather on devuan-dev: Subscribe
• Receive release announcements and important news from devuan-announce: Subscribe
• Follow us on Twitter: @DevuanOrg
• Search our package repositories: https://pkginfo.devuan.org
• File a bug report: https://bugs.devuan.org

If you'd like to contribute to the maintenance and growth of Devuan by providing hardware, services, expertise, funding or media visibility, please use this contact email. For technical support, please use options listed above.

• Send a private email to

About this site

This site can be mentioned as “dev dash 1 dot org” as it is reached via dev-one.org and dev-1.org.

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