Dev1 Galaxy Forum / Devuan Derivatives

Genuen

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:55:29 +0000

libudev required an update to align with the current version listed under the Provides, Breaks... fields in debian/control for libudev-compat. The installation of the "Destop" installer-iso failed due to this dependency mismatch, and the reason other images installed successfully is that they lacked the transitional libudev package.

Compositor became a victim

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:41:42 +0000

I can't reproduce this exactly, but it's close. When I choose to select a region in the screenshooter, the entire screen gets dark, but not black. I can still see everything. If I repeat that with compositor turned off, the screen does not go dark. That's on up-to-date excalibur with same software versions you posted.

I don't have any good suggestions for what to do with that information. Maybe increase the brightness of your screen?

FWIW I'm using nouveau driver with an old geforce 210.

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

dummy@example.com (golinux) — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:01:08 +0000

FYI . . . it's soooo easy to make the nonsense vanish here.

Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (Valera) — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:54:25 +0000

Interesting. Good luck with your research.

Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

dummy@example.com (samhain) — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:36:20 +0000

September 2026 Version is out!

Whats in it:

- TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT
- Xlibre 25.2.0
- new background images
- kernel 7.1.12
- all specific tweaks are packaged in darkness-tweaks
- rpi crossinstaller
- new i386 iso with kernel 7.1.12 for those who love old hardware

Notes:

- Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected.
- Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: "modesetting" is used for "VirtualBox GPU".
- Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack
- deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960
- dark theme for OpenSCAD
- i386 iso comes without EFI support

Download:

amd64:
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260901.iso
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … iso.sha256

i386:
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … 260901.iso
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … iso.sha256

Some images

Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience smile

GENUEN time does not change

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:34:38 +0000

# hwclock --set --date "2026-06-06 3:44"
# date --set "2026-06-06 3:44"

gfp wrote:

every time I log into Genuen XFCE
the time stays at the last login.

fake-hwclock is a service designed for boards that do not have a battery or a real hardware clock (such as the Raspberry Pi). What it does is save the time to a text file when the system is shut down and restore exactly that same time when it is switched on. Therefore, I guess that this is causing a conflict with the real clock and freezing the system in the past. I'll try to fix this issue..., maybe disabling fake-hwclock and moving hwclock.sh from the sysinit runlevel to the boot runlevel.

Devuan Excalibur mate-mini + Xlibre!

dummy@example.com (samhain) — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:34:11 +0000

Xorg gone, welcome Xlibre - I love it

LCOS : Lunduke Computer Operating System

dummy@example.com (JayneCobb) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:21:24 +0000

I downloaded it to check it out. Like you said Duke Nukem, and Bryan does as well, it is light weight and based on Devuan. I love Devuan, and as long as Devuan stays the course, then I have no plan on ever leaving.....although it is nice to have another choice out there.

Refractasnapshot – Comparison of different Compression Algorithms

dummy@example.com (Xaver) — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:34:30 +0000

Now I have integrated these insights in /etc/refractasnaoshot.conf
The compression sections of my refractasnaoshot.conf now looks like this:

-----------------------------
[...]

# Uncomment one of the lines below to use xz or zstd compression for smaller iso.

# small and slow # relative size of the iso-image
#mksq_opt="-comp xz" # (-4.1% to zstd -19 | -15,4% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 262144" # (-2.0% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 524288" # (-3.8% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -b 1048576" # (-5.5% to xz)

# smaller and slower:
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86" # (-1.5% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86 -b 524288" # (-5.4% to xz)
#mksq_opt="-comp xz -Xbcj x86 -b 1048576" # (-6.9% to xz)

# not as small but faster
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 22" # (= zstd -19 | --ultra ?)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 19" # (-11.8% to zstd -1)
mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 15" # (-11.1% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 8" # (-7.0% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 3" # (-3.1% to zstd -1)
#mksq_opt="-comp zstd -Xcompression-level 1" # (-17.2% to lz4)

#mksq_opt="-comp lz4" # (+20,8% to zstd -1)

[...]

Where is the release information stored?

dummy@example.com (grafiksinc) — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:38:46 +0000

yeah the both do something like this

PRETTY_NAME="PeppermintOS"
NAME="Peppermint"
ID=debian
VERSION_CODENAME=daedalus
HOME_URL="https://peppermintos.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepos/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://sourceforge.net/p/peppermintos/pepos/"

You could be right some fluke during install any way thanks!

Questions about Upgrading Exe GNU/Linux

dummy@example.com (robertson) — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:12:45 +0000

Thank you both for your helpful and informative replies. I will do the upgrade later this summer when I am back visiting those family members. I'll let you know how it goes!

[SOLVED] New Devuan Derivative Beep OS Released!

dummy@example.com (soumya65536) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:23:21 +0000

apologies for shouting, admin.

[SOLVED] GENUEN updating packages is disabled

dummy@example.com (gfp) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:19:14 +0000

ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
hwclock --systohc

with sudo it worked for me
no problem

thanks very much aitor

Which tool is best for Devuan Derivative-making?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:26:59 +0000

I haven't used live-build in over 10 years and never on devuan. I know there are some people who have used it with devuan.
Devuan live-sdk is similar to live-build in that it pulls packages from the repo and builds the system in a chroot. This is good if you're making a lot of different isos - you just need to alter the configs to do a different build. The downside is that you often don't know the build failed until the end of the run, then you have to start over. When you start building a new release, you can have frequent failures in the beginning because some packages in your list might not be in the repo anymore or may have changed names.

refractasnapshot does not require access to the repo to build the iso. It makes a copy of your running system with a few things excluded and puts that into the iso. Since it's copying an installed system, any questions about missing packages have already been answered before you started to make the iso. Also, since it's copying the running system, any changes you make right before running it will be copied into the iso. The downside of this method is that you must have an installed system, either on hardware or in a virtual machine, for each flavor you want to build.

To adjust what gets copied by refractasnapshot, edit /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list. See 'man rsync' for details.

Edit: one more difference between live-build or live-sdk and refractasnapshot is that refractasnapshot builds an iso that has an unprivileged user with a home directory. The others do not, but the live-config scripts create the user and home when the system boots. This affects which live-config options are used in the boot command. See 'man live-config' and probably 'man live-boot' too.
Note that live-build, live-sdk and refractasnapshot all use the debian live-boot and live-config scripts.

I don't know what those others are.

Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:27:08 +0000

New version uploaded (non-Xlibre) just a few minutes ago, some 137 updates including a new kernel, plus a band-aid for the NM issue that's been talked about in a few threads here. Easy way to try Devuan's Mate which is superb, when I first tried Devuan 10 years ago it was the first thing I tried, and I still use it very regularly. Give it a whirl!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

Again please note: NOT an official Devuan iso! And not efi-enabled. Old-school to the core and proud of it.