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[SOLVED] MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

dummy@example.com (Valera) — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:30:34 +0000

sudo apt install bluedevil
sudo apt install ufw

[SOLVED] GENUEN updating packages is disabled

dummy@example.com (prospero) — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:06:44 +0000

You may need to modify the NotShowIn= line in/etc/xdg/autostart/lxpolkit.desktop so you can see the lxpolkit entry in Settings > Session and Startup > Application Autostart. It may not show in Xfce by default . You can either remove XFCE from the NotShowIn= line, or replace that line with OnlyShowIn=XFCE.

Note that running synaptic-pkexec also requires a polkit agent to prompt for password. You need to use sudo if you want to be prompted for a password in the terminal.

Vuu-do Linux! New Openbox-64 iso's (1.0.7) up 2-02-18!!

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:46:23 +0000

New 5.03 ob-max-z uploaded, lots of updates including new kernel and new versions of Vuu-do apps.
Will get a new mini rolled up here in a few days.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … -ob-max-z/

New Vendefoul Wolf based on latest Devuan Excalibur

dummy@example.com (tau) — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:25 +0000

Installed the Vendewolf LXQT DE on a Lenovo MiiX 510-121kb that I recently acquired. Long time Debian user but have been looking for an excuse to try Devuan out and this seemed the ideal opportunity. Was looking to go super lightweight although TBF the Lenovo isn't exactly poorly spec'd with intel i5 7200 cpu, 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD. So can confirm that encryption also failed on LXQT install but the upside is that the etc/sudoers.d file was empty. One or two minor bugs but presumably there will be a tweaks update before too long.

It's possible that the dev's have already tidied up some of the issues previously reported and I have found this install to be an enjoyable experience so far, so I might just stick with it for now at least, assuming there are no more surprises. One thing I can report is it's lightening fast on this 6 year old mid range Lenovo laptop.

Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:20 +0000

Easier way to get to xfce. Don't know why I didn't think of this the first time.

At the isolinux boot menu (for legacy boot) press TAB, or at the grub menu (for uefi boot) press e to edit the boot command.

Add either 'noautologin' or 'nox11autologin' to the boot command. For legacy boot, it goes at the end of the command that appears at the bottom of the screen. For uefi boot it goes at the end of the linux line.

You'll boot to a lightdm login screen. Login as user with password user.

Has anyone tried this iso yet? Please see if you can break it. Thanks.

[SOLVED] REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:26:21 +0000

Refracta has

- few metapackages and excludes Recommends to make it leaner and easier to remove packages to customize the system. It used to fit on one CD.
- added diagnostic, rescue and repair tools, mostly cli.
- a few config tweaks - kernel.sysrq=1 in sysctl.conf, ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS in adduser.conf, ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes in /etc/default/su and a few others.
- openssh-server running so you can log in remotely if there's no display. NOTE: The world knows your password. You should be behind a router and not have port forwarding set up or else unplug the network cable.
- Refracta is older than Devuan. That's why the version numbers match Debian's.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but those are the main differences.

List of Devuan derivatives

dummy@example.com (Camtaf) — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:25:17 +0000

You are right, I should have said Excaliber - thats the trouble with using various different computer systems....

GENUEN starting GUI

dummy@example.com (prospero) — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:41:55 +0000

I would suggest installing afresh from the latest genuen 6 excalibur iso:
https://www.genuen.org/mirror/excalibur

Here it is booting fine and fast into a graphical session. I suppose the external mediation is provided by case 2 above (dbus and elogind), but did not have time to investigate further.

Fastest and newest AVMultimedia ever...

dummy@example.com (avbox) — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:49:55 +0000

Oh, and then I realized that I hadn't announced the availability of ComfyUI (including LTX 2.3) for the ArchivistaBox AGPLv3 here; more on that here:

https://archivista.ch/cms/en/news/comfyui-integration/

Everything's running locally — it's already amazing what you can do with Devuan right now ;-)

Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

dummy@example.com (samhain) — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:26:57 +0000

Sure it is:
- right click on a free space of the panel (just above the CD icon)
- select "Configure Panel ..."
You'll most likely want to reconfigure the clock, too

Devuan Excalibur mate-mini + Xlibre!

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:44:04 +0000

user is in video group; libseat1 is installed. I think maybe it's working correctly and I'm expecting something it doesn't do (user shutdown from the menu). I don't know why startxfce4 fails but startx works.

Anyway, I removed all the consolekit stuff because my goal is to check that seatd works with xlibre.

GNUinOS - Libre

dummy@example.com (prospero) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:42:11 +0000

This installed and boots like a breeze.

Genuen Excalibur 6 rocks!

bazinga-devuan-20260320

dummy@example.com (godane) — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:21:45 +0000

Here is a update of my bazinga devuan i made awhile back. This includes the full debian, devuan and its merged repos. The default desktop is lxde.

You need to make/have a Ventoy drive to use this. You will need to make bazinga-devuan-20260320 folder and put the .sb file there. The sbo files can go into modpath/apt-mirror folder on the root of your Ventoy partition. You will also need a modules and rootcopy folder in bazinga-devuan-20260320 folder.

https://archive.org/download/bazinga-devuan-20260320

I hope this helps.

Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:37:48 +0000

Thank you Ron! I managed to also knock out an identical iso but with the substitution of Xlibre for the xserver, testing it today and will post up later. Preliminary results look good, the artifacts I was experiencing months ago with it are gone and everything is very smooth so far. Using a tiny bit less ram too.

[MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:06:22 +0000

FTW, install your favorite version in a virtual machine and then do the upgrade. That way, if you screw it up, it's easy to start over again. Then you can make your own iso with refractasnapshot and install to real hardware.