Admins who prefer a Unix-style operating system and don't like the centralized "one tool doing it all" approach of systemd, switch to Devuan.
This mostly improves uptime over boot time. Admins of servers don't care about boot time and prefer uptime.
This list keeps track of the related versions of Devuan and Debian.
| Debian | Devuan | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Wheezy | ||
| 8 | Jessie | 1 | Jessie |
| 9 | Stretch | 2 | ASCII |
| 10 | Buster | 3 | Beowulf |
| 11 | Bullseye | 4 | Chimaera |
| 12 | Bookworm | 5 | Daedalus |
| 13 | Trixie (stable) | 6 | Excalibur (stable) |
| 14 | Forky | 7 | Freia |
| 15 | Duke | 8 |