Devil-Linux 1.8.0 to Be a Major Overhaul, Will Use SquashFS as Main File System

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the pre-installed applications and core components have been updated to their most recent versions, and those who are no longer maintained upstream were removed from the default install of Devil-Linux 1.8.0.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