After testing further I was able to make a snapshot and restore it successfully, so I've now met my general goals.

I'm able to get past most every glitch that comes my way, so again I appreciate your putting this together!

Thank you Valera!

I will test asap but in the meantime may I ask:  Have you already successfully used the Snapshot feature to create a liveusb that has proven to be installable elsewhere?  Are you in fact using that method to create your iso here?

That will be my first test once I get this up and running and I will let you know my experience.

For some reason it is not picking up my wireless network connection so I will first have to work through that.

In the Devuan world is there anything that needs to be done to add firmware or otherwise make sure that wireless cards are detected?  I have not had that problem lately with this computer I am working with with debian or artix or arch installations.

I also see that you did not include the "MXtweaks" tool.  Probably understandable and no big loss, but thought i would mention it in case it was an oversight.

Let me say again thank you for this work and for your combination of Devuan unstable / xfce / dinit / MXtools!   For my personal use testing the ability to make snapshots and then reinstall to other systems will be my first major test.

"Now, at your request, I'm making a version with XFCE"

That will be greatly appreciated!  I inquired over at this location ( https://devuboxlinux.github.io ) but that project doesn't seem currently active  https://devuboxlinux.github.io.  Someone put a lot of time and effort into the web page and setup, so maybe it isn't completely dead.

I'm also presuming that at some point I'll need to also be investigating Xlibre on Devuan, sort of like the Vendofoul Wolf project is doing  but hopefully that will be easier when the time comes.   

i probably would already be looking at that one but it appears to be primarily Spanish oriented and I'm never going to be very good at more than English.   (And I just read the thread here on Vendufoul Wolf and that didn't give me much confidence in it.  I'm glad I came here and read that before investing more time in Vendofoul.)

Hello -

I am a new user of Devuan, coming from MX-Linux.  I would very much like access to the MX Tools, especially including snapshot capability.  However I am an XFCE user and don't want to worry with KDE or Sonic.

Would your respin be a good place to start, and just add XFCE when I get it installed, or is there another way to get the full MX tool experience in Devuan?

Thanks very much for your work on this respin.