# Project Showcase: Movuan

DevFeed: [Project Showcase: Movuan](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/project-showcase-movuan-34889.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://pine64.org/2025/08/27/august_2025_movuan/>)

Published: 2025-08-27T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Community blog on PINE64](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/community-blog-on-pine64.md>)

Topics: [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>), [Debian](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debian.md>), [systemd](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systemd.md>), [GitLab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gitlab.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [chromium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chromium.md>), [debian](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debian.md>), [gitlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gitlab.md>), [project-showcase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project-showcase.md>), [systemd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systemd.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>)

## AI overview

A community project called Movuan provides a mobile distribution based on Devuan 5.0 with Phosh, using modified Mobian debos to build images. The article explains installation options, privacy-oriented extras, Devuan's alternative init systems, and Movuan's goal of becoming an official Devuan version.

## Source excerpt

Table of contents The Movuan project Installing Movuan What is Devuan? Future goals and contributing Do you have something to share? Contact Community PineStore The Movuan project The Movuan project was started by community member lxb and announced in a forum post as 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 an optional script which 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 the GitLab repository along with instructions on installing said image. As usual you can use a tool like Balena Etcher or Gnome Disks to write them to an SD Card as well. You may build your own images as well using the debos recipe in the GitLab repository. What is Devuan? Devuan for users who are unaware is a fork of Debian which provides alterative init systems to Systemd such as: sysvinit (default) openrc runit sinit s6 shepherd The benefit of using a different init system depends on the features it offers over another. So it is highly depends on user preference. Other than this change it runs the same (at a surface level) as Debian/Mobian. Users can learn more about the Devuan project here. Future goals and contributing The goal of the Movuan project is to merge into Devuan as an official version, but it still requires some polishing to do before this can happen. Specifically help with packaging and testing would be appreciated! Anyone who i