maybe the devuan team is interested in this one that shows all the licenses
there is also a yad script to modify the mirrorlist but that one would need at least some finetuning

i also have this function called awk-menu.sh that i used to make some advanced cli menus
mount_menu.sh is one of the better ones, but the mainstream is not ready for it yet
(this menu is more powerfull than dialog or all the other stuff because it can assing custom keybindings for every menu,
but it is a little tricky and could need some improvements)

i think i fixed it all this time
this is the final version.

With just booting to my old home folder all worked fine except having to start up the network each time and I foolishly changed /etc/timezone instead of /etc/localtime. It seems that the set_time script doesn't like my date format either. Since the hardware clock will be set from the system on log out it doesn't matter.

the time management in ALL PC's is absolutely ridiculous... We have today (personal) Computers a lot better of those of the army minister of the time before PC's did exist but those machine with Artificial Intelligence are fully incompetent to adapt itself to the real hour although they contain all an exceptional clock in itself!

it is to laugh...

Very happy user here.
Thanks a lot!!

this may very well be the final version
i definetly need a break from this project
and i dont know when or if i will return

with that out of the way, here are the news:
boot time reduced by 10%
improved user friendliness
files on the desktop (jwm)
more from the good things
less bad things
all new and shiny
overall smoothness increased by 200%
hotness also increased by a factor of 10
the price stayed the same

since dbus is now dependency-chained to xorg, i had to pin seatd to chimaera

as always this is experimental software, i am not a porfessional, use at you own risk
but i think it works pretty well on 10 year old hardware

There is no complete list of changes, but here are the highlights:

• alacritty replaced urxvt

• lossless-cut replaced vidcutter

• antimicrox replaced qjoypad

• yt-dlp replaced youtube-dl

• magnifiqus replaced xzoom

• qps is the default task manager again

• new emulators: visualboyadvance-m, bsnes and bsnes-plus

• and rom patchers flips and lazy_ips

• Cardinal as new virtual modular synthesizer lv2-plugin

• there was a bug in the installer that got fixed

• /usr/local/bin/datetime.sh now has a '--auto' option, to automatically set the system time

• some scripts in the jwm menu got fixed and i added new ones (set date format, change conky color and toggle to maximize all windows)

• syslinux bootloader now looks for the symlink /boot/vmlinuz, it will update automatically when a new kernel is installed (/etc/kernel/postinst.d/yy-bootlink)

• OBS will now start, if your pc does not support GLSL >3.3

• other new applications are zbarcam-qt to scan qr-codes and crazydiskinfo to check s.m.a.r.t parameters

• qutebrowser will delete .local/share/qutebrowser/webengine before it starts, this prevents a rare case where it will always freeze

• conky will now only show battery and wifi info, if those are present on your system

more changes can be seen here https://gitlab.com/_alphalpha_/forge-do … cd98499bd1

The old isos are no longer available,
Forge is basically the same, but upgraded to chimaera and with improvements on the installer and other scripts
if you are looking for a specific script or config file, you can find them here on gitlab

I did prefer my compiled [to /usr/local/bin/] claws_mail 4.0 to the 3.17 that devuan still uses. It runs flawlessly and all I needed to add to get it working on Forge were:
libcompface1 and libetpan20
Again my old NVIDIA GT218 card to run at 75HZ instead of nouveau's 60HZ was to run the nvidia-installer in the correct extracted and patched directory as I wrote previously.
Hopefully the kernel stays put. Otherwise I'll have to re-install the nvidia 340-108 driver.
It's still my main distro. And yes the new xwallpaper app is very nice.

Now to get Remind set up so my extended family birthdays and anniversaries repeat each year. Then to update the entries in Gramps.

Thanks again, Michael, for all your work.

Some observations:
1 - The wallpaper.sh script seems to have an error:
line 2 :
LINK="$HOME/.local/wallpaper"

should be:
LINK="$HOME/.local/wallpaper.png"

2 - update_qutebrowser.sh no longer finds LATEST_VERSION
My kludge is to insert the following as line 22:
LATEST_VERSION="v2.4.0"

Hi Larry,
thanks for helping to improve this project.
The file extiension for the wallpaper was dropped on purpose, when i made the new gui wallpaper chooser ( themes > wallpaper > select wallpaper )
but i see that i forgot to change that in the "old" way.
This command should fix it for now:

sed -i 's:WP=".local/wallpaper.png":WP=".local/wallpaper":' ~/.config/jwm/dynamic/wallpaper.sh

You should try the gui wallpaper changer if you have not discovered it yet, its way more elegant

I noticed the qutebrowser update problem too (and the one for shotcut), on monday i did upload a new iso where this is fixed
but no need to reinstall the whole thing, i uploaded all relevant scripts on gitlab just now.
Actually i did update more of the scripts so the best thing would be to just copy the .local/Script directory and overwrite everthing that has changed

git clone https://gitlab.com/_alphalpha_/forge-dotfiles.git
cp -R forge-dotfiles/.local/Scripts/* .local/Scripts

In the beowulf release this would be done automatically with 'update_all' but i decided to drop that feature.
From now on you will be able to see new gitlab commits in newsbeuter (super + , )
the rss feed should already be there, you can refresh the list with 'r'

Edit: also to get the calendar working, create .config/kalendar directory

should be:
LINK="$HOME/.local/wallpaper.png"

2 - update_qutebrowser.sh no longer finds LATEST_VERSION
My kludge is to insert the following as line 22:
LATEST_VERSION="v2.4.0"

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If there are any nvidia-legacy-340 users out there it IS possible to get nvidia-340-108 to deliver 75HZ on Forge. per Matt Fletcher on the Devuan list:
Dng mailing list <Dng@lists.dyne.org> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/m … stinfo/dng:
"I  have it working on chimaera after patching the NVIDIA installer with
patches from arch:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-340xx/

Run The NVIDIA installer with --extract-only and apply the
000*-kernel-5.* patches, then run nvidia-installer from the extracted
directory."
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Still my main distro.  Thanks for all your work!

Larry

please can you clone goodlifelinux? it was so lightweight and it only had a few programs installed by default

Sorry i am not going to clone a distro that i never heard of, and lightweight in terms of disk usage is not my motto
you can easily make your own devuan iso with refractasnapshot

if you post some more details about that on irc or in the forum, i am pretty sure someone will help you