The second Release Candidate is available for public testing

Jan 17, 2017 00:33 GMT  ·  By

It's been seven months since we last heard something from the developers of the Devil-Linux project, which produces a tiny, dedicated server distribution for many applications, and a new development version of the upcoming 1.8 stable series is out.

While there's no word if the development team had any personal or technical issues during the development of Devil-Linux 1.8.0, which recently received a second Release Candidate (RC) build, we're being informed that work is ongoing for the upcoming release, which will be a major overhaul of Devil-Linux.

From the release announcement, it looks like numerous of the pre-installed applications and core components have been updated to their most recent versions, and those who are no longer maintained upstream were removed from the default install of Devil-Linux 1.8.0.

Additionally, the main file system has been switched to SquashFS, a compressed read-only file system for Linux-based operating systems, which will further reduce the size of the ISO image that allows you to run Devil-Linux as a dedicated firewall, router, or server directly from a USB pen drive.

"This is a major overhaul of Devil-Linux. Most programs and libraries have been updated and unmaintained ones have been removed," said the developers. "The main file system has been switched to squashfs, to further reduce the iso size."

If you want to take the new Release Candidate version for a test drive, you can download the Devil-Linux 1.8.0 RC2 ISO image right now from our website. However, please try to keep in mind that this is still a pre-release version and you should not use it as your daily driver, nor for any production work.