but only one of them has the vast majority of posts(same as i referred to earlier).

just continue posting to that one well-known, well-used, thread(hopefully for years to come)...ha!

i have not looked at all the _other_ _lesser_ threads so don't know how easy it would be to combine them or incorporate them into the preferred thread.

as always, your mileage may vary.

Each thing to its own rather than trying to shoe-horn in everything into the one system. It may require a moment of reflection on one's purpose behind the urge of sharing a thought structure, and I find that to be a good thing in itself even though it might place the rendering of that thought structure elsewhere than on this forum.

Blogs, don't like 'em. I guess maybe one is needed somewhere, but typing out all this stuff is a lot of work for my two fingers. And since I only make these things about once every 5-7 years there wouldn't be any additional content for long periods of time.

But point well-taken, maybe i'll make one.

As to alterations to tidy things up . . . that would be something for ralph.ronnquist to take on if he chooses.  I havem't poked the backend of this forum in a very long time . . .

It's just that I like to share what's going on as I work, provide a little explanation as to why things get replaced and why I do things a certain way, to help people understand what they're in for if they choose to try it. And also to add some info to the database for future aspiring iso-rollers as reference to help them get started, and maybe avoid some of my mistakes. I know that kind of info in multiple places across the internet has certainly helped me a lot...

So at this point I would be happy to write out a single original post to replace the original post in the main vuu-do thread, that explains the different options, six of them now very briefly with links, and edit the original title to simply reflect Vuu-do info. And then you could scrap the other threads. Except maybe the Devuan-mini thread as that's not a Vuu-do version and maybe should have it's own, gotten quite a few downloads.

What do you think?

Ours is not to reason why.

But as I said, i'm done for now. Nothing but occasional maintenance updates on what's up now I think. So no new threads for new versions.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=766

and since this one is the most popular with almost 100K views it is the best candidate for rolling other threads into(if that is even possible...don't know...just thinking out loud)

5.03-z 1-10-2025

This version adds some legacy firmware that really should have been included on previous iso's, but was left off in pursuit of a smaller iso size.
Older wi-fi/ethernet and sound etc. should now work. Intel microcode has also been added and alsa-firmware-loaders as well. Fixed a small calendar bug,
updated a couple of programs, and blacklisted wdat_wdt so that error doesn't appear during boot. No proprietary Nvidia drivers have been installed, that
is a process that can be unique to different machines and involves quite a bit of work, open-source software for Nvidia is already onboard and should
work fine for most users.

New versions compressed with zstd instead of xz for improved performance in live-sessions.

5.02-Z
Identical to Vuu-do 5.02 iso's except these iso's have been compressed using zstd instead of xz,
it makes for a slightly larger size iso, but much faster decompression, in practice this makes it
faster to load and run from a liveUSB, it should also install faster to a hard-drive.
On a live CD/DVD the bottleneck is the slow transfer of the optical drive, but if you load it all
to ram you'll get some better performance in that session as well. In my own testing it's working
really well on my older hardware and USB-2, faster boot, faster opening programs, less lag the
first time you open something in a session. On a newer machine with much higher specs it may not
be that noticeable. This is the first run for testing.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … do-5-zstd/
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This one is superb IMO. The below are the regular 5.02's compressed with xz.

Release notes at the site and on iso.

New Vuu-do 5.02 Openbox mini up:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … 5.02-mini/

And got the max up now 12-30-2024:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … -5.02-max/

And with that I am done for a while, whew! Edit: Apparently I am not.