Review: Expirion 6.0 and openKylin 2.0
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This exploration of Expirion is, admittedly, short because after a few hours I realized I was, for all practical purposes, running Devuan. I reviewed Devuan a few years ago and this experience was identical in virtually every way. (The title bars in Expirion are blue while past versions of Devuan used red.) Expirion uses the same system installer, runs the same desktop environment, includes almost exactly the same desktop applications, and Expirion pulls from Devuan's repositories only. As far as I could tell, I was running plain Devuan with no notable or practical differences. It seems to be the same software on the same desktop with the same theme, with no documentation or indication on the project's SourceForge page that there is anything to set it apart.
Expirion runs well enough. It played well in my test environment, it was stable, and it was fast. I like that it offered no distractions or hurdles to getting started working. But the same could be said for Devuan. This project doesn't feel like a separate distribution - it doesn't even feel like its own spin of Devuan - it seems to just be Devuan with a new name.