• Project Showcase: Movuan Table of contents The Movuan project The Movuan project was started by community memberlxband announced in aforum postas an alternative to mobile distributions using the systemd init system. • Thanks to being forked from Mobian, the project makes use of modified Mobian debos to build it’s images. • One of the modifications that lxb makes is anoptional scriptwhich can customize a Movuan image to install extra software like AndroidImpEx for importing contacts and sms messages from an Android phone, Ungoogled Chromium, local caching DNS (bind) tunnelled through TLS (stubby) to privacy minded servers and an inbuilt adblocker through a caching proxy (squid). • These modifications are a personal preference of lxb’s but anyone is free to use them to help improve their privacy. • Installing Movuan Movuan offers an image based on Devuan 5.0 (Debian 12) with Phosh. • Users can find Movuan images in theGitLab repositoryalong withinstructions on installing said image.
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- Project Showcase: Movuan
Movuan is a community‑led fork of Mobian that replaces systemd with Devuan’s alternative init systems (sysvinit, OpenRC, runit, etc.). Built on Devuan 5.0 (Debian 12) with Phosh, the project offers pre‑built images and a debos recipe for custom builds. Its key feature is an optional script that can add privacy‑focused tools such as AndroidImpEx, Ungoogled Chromium, a TLS‑tunneled DNS cache (stubby), and an ad‑blocking caching proxy (Squid). The goal is to refine the distribution and merge it into Devuan as an official variant. Contributors are welcome; contact lxb1@yahoo.com for involvement.
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