Debian Derivatives: Q4OS and Devuan
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Debian-Based Q4OS 1.8.4 Operating System Lets Users Select Alternative Desktops
Today, April 26, 2017, the developers behind the Debian-based Q4OS GNU/Linux distribution announced the release of the fourth stability and security update of the Q4OS 1.8 "Orion" series.
Q4OS 1.8.4 comes almost two months after the release of the previous point release, and besides incorporating all the security patches backported from the upstream repositories of the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" operating system series, it adds an exciting new feature, namely the integration of alternative desktop environments.
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Which is Free, Which is Open … [Also]
Devuan and Debian need not defer to the Open Source Initiative regarding
what is Open Source, since the OSI is just using Debian's Free Software
Guidelines. Debian's Free Software Guidelines are a definition of Free
Software, not specifically Open Source. At the time they were created, RMS
personally approved of them as "a good definition of Free Software".
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