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#1 Re: Devuan » Cinnamon desktop will be unmaintained after bullseye » 2021-06-29 05:19:17

You can pull in other desktops in like xfce4 and MATE no worries at all. I generally install both just because of a bit of variety. They both work well with each other as well. Xfce4 uses 80megs of ram when up and running. MATE a tad more.

#2 Re: Devuan » Archiving Devuan repositories » 2021-06-28 04:26:22

fsmithred wrote:

Try archive.devuan.org for jessie packages.

Use this in sources.list

deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged jessie main

Or go here if you want to download our forked packages. Note that pool is in /devuan but not /merged.
http://archive.devuan.org/devuan/pool/

I'm not sure if debian has archived jessie yet. Back at the end of June when it was supposed to be done, they delayed it.

I think this is a howto for setting up amprolla locally. It's in Spanish. I know for a fact that aitor is running amprolla to merge his own packages in gnuinos.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2405

HTH

Thanks, That is good to know. I'm currently carrying out a wee project with Davuan Jessie with my old P200mmx box(I did my first foray into Linux on it over 17 years ago) It's going to open the eyes of the Linux naysayers on n X86 forum I frequent. Should be fun wink.At that moment synaptic/apt say the downloads are not autenticated. they install just fine thoiugh. Is there any way to eliminate this warning? I'm currently downloading 15gigs of game related stuf that will run on the old gal fine.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Beowolf » 2020-09-28 19:57:42

I don't find Mint any better or worse than any other distrobution quite frankly.

This whole my distro is better than your distro thing is just plain bull shit.

#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » IP Camera wifi software for Linux. » 2020-09-25 18:25:16

All sorted. Xeoma work wonderfully.

When the start up menu comes up just select the free version. It supports four cameras, so good for home use.

#5 Desktop and Multimedia » IP Camera wifi software for Linux. » 2020-09-24 21:18:57

Caluser2000
Replies: 1

What is good wifi IP Camera software for Linux? I'm using iCSee on my Andriod tablet and would like something similar, is simple to set up and run.

I have searched around but not come too anything close.

Thanks for the replies all.

#6 Desktop and Multimedia » Beowolf » 2020-09-24 16:44:27

Caluser2000
Replies: 13

Replace my old Mint 17.3 installation with a netinstall of Beowolf 32-bit. I'm very with the outcome. A lot snappier. Well done devs.

#7 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » System Specifications Of Users Systems? » 2020-05-21 22:54:44

fsmithred wrote:

P1 (586) is no longer supported by debian kernels. The i386 ascii minimal-live iso has a plain 686 (non-pae) kernel which should work on a Pentium Pro or better.

Thank you.

#8 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » System Specifications Of Users Systems? » 2020-05-20 23:51:37

Hi guys and gals. It's been a while. Just to let you know I have a AMD K6-2 266 test rig with 300ish megs of ram set up for testing older kit-pci cards video/sound/usb/nics and Devuan Jessie runs fine on it so does Debian 8. I did a net install with both, which obviously took a while,  with no problems at all. I use it to test even older systems- XT class to 486 class systems with serial and ethernet. Works wonderfully. I have compared to some older commercial distros-Turbo Linux 6.0, Xandros 2 and 3. Corel Kinux 1.1.2. RedHat 7.3 and a few others. Also test them on a P16MMX set up with 256megs of ram which seemed more stable. There really isn't that much of a performance difference at all. if any, for which I was pleasantly surprised. Pluses complete hot swap of usb sticks, usb mouse/keyboard support and the ability to go wireless if needed.

Would it be possible to do the same with ascii? IE does ascii support P1 class cpus? If so what kernal?

Kind regards

Mark NZ

Edit- And yes I can use a web browser on the K6-2 rig. Epiphany works but I prefer NetSurf because it is lighter and works fine with my favorite sites.

#9 Re: Other Issues » Firestarter » 2018-06-30 01:34:29

It still works very well. As devuser pointed out the basic functionality hasn't changed. I'm pleased I've got it.

#10 Hardware & System Configuration » System Specifications Of Users Systems? » 2018-06-29 05:19:27

Caluser2000
Replies: 15

I'm curious as to what are the system specs of members systems.

I'm using Devaun Jessie on a parts bin special Acer Aspire F1 with Celeron 2.8Mhz system, 1gig of ram and a pultry 45gig hdd matched with a Sony BRAVIA 20" 4:3 LCD TV acting as its monitor. I use it daily for doing most stuff I need to do on a computer. Files go on removable media. Jessie runs real well on it. I do have Crunch Bang on the smaller 10gig drive which was my previous Linux install on this system. I should really replace that with another hdd.

#11 Re: Installation » I can not install the new Devuan(2) » 2018-06-28 00:04:53

David just follow the instructions given by the installation routine. Its fairly a fairly straight forward process and you should be up and running in 20 minutes or so.

#12 Re: Installation » Ascii upgrade messed up the devuan jessie » 2018-06-27 23:59:52

erdos wrote:
msi wrote:

Ok, I see. First, I'd try setting sources.list back to Jessie and then run apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. If that goes well, I'd reboot and see how that goes.

Btw, it's a good idea to use code tags when posting config files. That makes it more readable.

The issue remains unresolved because the wifi is not working and system is in read-only mode after attempted ascii upgrade.

The best thing you can do is backup any data/documents then do a fresh installation of whatever distro you want to install. It'll be far quicker than trying to recover a a borked install.

#13 Other Issues » Firestarter » 2018-06-27 23:32:20

Caluser2000
Replies: 4

Using Devuan Jessie i386. I was looking for a Gui front end for iptables and came across https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/i386 … r/download I installed it using dpkg. I got a dependency issue trying to run it initially. I went to force its removal with

apt-get -f autoremove

and that sorted the dependencies strangely enough. Although firestarter is quite old it does the job quite nicely. https://imgur.com/a/lNYlJ9f

Thought this might be handy for other Jessie users. I like the fact you stop networking on the fly using the lock function.

#14 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Floppy disk drive issues. » 2018-06-02 21:44:07

What I should have done is check my old CrunchBangs fstab. That would have cleared things up straight away. Oh well whats a couple of hours wasted searching the internet?

#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Floppy disk drive issues. » 2018-06-02 20:26:05

After further digging found the solution at https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.p … c=106099.0

Copied "/dev/fd0 /media/user/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,flush,exec 0 0" to the fstab and it works as it should. I was missing exec and umask=0

An floppy icon now shows up on my desktop when the drive is mounted.

Why a floppy drive you ask? I have a few older systems. 286/386/486s to have fdds.

Thanks for taking the time to read my OP.

.

#16 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Floppy disk drive issues. » 2018-06-02 19:34:02

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=4c4cc56c-c494-45d9-9b8a-dc50b744671a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=533f2dfa-112a-45bb-a536-655b15414da0 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sr0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/fd0  /media/user/floppy     auto   user,defaults,noauto 

When the drive was mounted I tried "chmod 777" and "chown user /media/user/floppy" on the mount directory /media/user/floppy.

#17 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED]Floppy disk drive issues. » 2018-06-02 02:11:13

Caluser2000
Replies: 5

On Devuan Jessie i386 using Mate I can mount empty floppy disks and view the contents but can not move files to it. I get a permissions error.  ls -l shows the owner and group as root.
I've tried numerous times to change permissions/ownership but no go. Any ideas on how I can get it to mount as a regular user?

Using pcmanfm my USB drive mounts ok and I can copy/paste ok.

I can use mc as root to force the copying of files to fdd. It still throws up permission errors though. Its not ideal as I'd like to access the fdd as a user in MATE.

I know the drive is ok because ChrungBang works fine out of the box.

#19 Installation » Jessie i386 security updates. » 2018-05-14 03:22:58

Caluser2000
Replies: 2

Is the Jessie i386 getting getting security updates?
If so what reposatory should I have in my sources.list?

#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Epson WF-7510 » 2018-05-12 04:03:16

So far its picked up all the hardware on this system so am very pleased.

#21 Hardware & System Configuration » Epson WF-7510 » 2018-05-12 02:29:44

Caluser2000
Replies: 2

Just been playing around with the wifes wireless Epson WF-7510 printer/scanner. Thought I'd see if I can get it to work on this Devuan Jessie i386 box. To my surprise it worked straight off the bat with the minimum setup.

#22 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Freezing in XFCE4 » 2018-04-27 05:49:08

I've been using MATE now for a couple of hours and absolutely no hickups.

#23 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Booting direct to the desktop. » 2018-04-27 05:37:30

Ive got it auto booting into MATE now. Combination of editing slim.conf and the above command did the trick. Hopefully this help anyone else who wishes to do something similar.

Means my wife can fire up the system to use the printer without having me around.

One interesting thing I discovered is that removing lxde with apt appeared to remove but it still booted into it.

#24 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Booting direct to the desktop. » 2018-04-27 05:20:18

Got MATE set as default DE by running the following as root:

update-alternatives --config x-session-manager 

It listed all the DE/WMs. I then selected MATE and it placed a star next to it.

#25 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Booting direct to the desktop. » 2018-04-27 04:21:21

Thanks. Just need MATE to be the default DE now.

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