I didn’t see “Devuan” listed as a “Community Supported” Linux distro (and there’s no “devuan” tag yet), so I thought I’d add a topic for it.
(If a Devuan topic is covered elsewhere here, let me know and I’ll stop updating this one.)
On a Laptop 16 with the “Ryzen AI 300 Series” CPU, Devuan Excalibur (kernel 6.12) can be installed, and it even boots. ![]()
I upgraded my BIOS from 3.04 to 3.05 before starting, but I don’t if that’s a factor.
I started with the Devuan image “devuan_excalibur_6.1.0_amd64_desktop.iso” and a clean M.2 drive (no previous OS).
When booting from that image, the installer will complain about CD-ROM and/or other hardware initialization issues and then pause; after around 20 seconds or so, it will continue by itself, no key presses needed.
After installation, kernel 6.19 can be installed by switching the apt sources.list file from “excalibur” (a.k.a. “stable” in Debian suite terms) to “freia” (“testing”). The Devuan devs recommend using codenames (such as “freia”), but the suite name “testing” works for me, so, after the initial installation completed, I changed my entire sources.list file to this one line…
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged/ testing main non-free-firmware non-free contrib
…then did “update”, “upgrade”, etc.
My installation is still a work in progress, so I don’t know yet if everything will work as expected (such as audio); I’ll post updates.