Please log your observations here.  I have a few things from dmo installed but that was from nearly two years ago and things change . . .

Will the input layout be the same as currently?  I hope it will be for continuity.   At a minimum please keep to the minimal swoosh and logo or just a solid purpy BG.   (Sorry you'll have to imagine the butterflies and planets . . .)

Note that F11 at slim login screen takes a screenshot with scrot and puts it in /root/slim.png.  Thanks to fsr for figuring that out.  Should make things easy for you.

@miroR . . . just a quick note as it is very late.

The FiraSans font was dropped last year.  I never liked it because it was 'unreliable' and the spacing was strange.  But I do believe that the logo was created by reorienting FiraSans characters.  The fonts currently used on the site are OpenSans and SourceCodePro. You can see the source here.

https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/d … /css/fonts

*edit* As to fonts on this forum . . . they could probably use some revision.

Let's Encrypt is free so no shillings needed.  But none of us here have the ability to fix the problem.  It has been reported on the ML and irc so hopefully some one will wake up . . .

Welcome to the forum BTW. 

My foggy memory tells me that dev/sdxx is the least reliable method of naming drives because adding a usb device can change the numbering and if you're not paying attention, you might write to the wrong partition.  My current fstab uses uuids but all my external drives are labeled as well as all my other installations.  (I've just been too lazy to change over.)   The only uuid that has ever changed for me during an install has been the swap partition afaicr.  Note that I don't mess with my system once it's up and running till the next release.

@zapper . . . you can email members of this forum (if they allow it) from their user info on any post or from their user profie.

That oopsie was pretty confusing and something undoubtedly got lost 'in translation'. But all's well that ends well,    Onward to ASCII  and Beowulf, my friend!

I've heard many times that skipping a release is a very bad idea.  Don't know why you chose to do that . . .

I assume you've seen this for starts?

AFAIK, that doesn't exist yet (and I doubt that a ceres iso will ever).  You could boot the minimal-live iso, upgrade it through ASCII and ceres and then take a snapshot to create you very own ceres iso.

This is the version that the current purpy slim is built off of but the font colors and positioning are not quite right:
https://git.devuan.org/hellekin/slim/tr … vuan-curve

This is the correct slim.theme but I have no idea where it currently resides on git.  Package name is devuan-curve-purpy:

#
## SLiM theme Devuan Curve
#
# Copyright 2015-2016 Dyne.org Foundation
# Created by hellekin <hellekin@dyne.org>
#
## Known issues
#
# - usernames larger than 20 characters may overflow the input box
#   SLiM limits username's length to 29 characters.  Usernames are
#   usually much shorter though.
# - ditto for passwords.  Usually a password up to 28 characters
#   should display without overflow.
#
## Changelog
#
# October 2016
#
# - Panel now indicates the F1 key and send to `man slim` for more
#   options.
# - Font changed from Fira Sans to Open Sans
# - Changed to Jessie's purpy theme

## background

# background.png is 50x50 purpy square
background_style tile
background_color #7b7691

## panel
# note: all positions are in pixels to ensure multihead support.

# place panel on the top left
# position is absolute
input_panel_x      0
input_panel_y      0

# use only one line for username and password inputs
# positions are absolute values, and relative to the panel
input_name_x     121
input_name_y     257

input_pass_x      -1
input_pass_y      -1

# place 'username:' and 'password:' prompts just above the input line
# positions are absolute values, and relative to the panel
username_x       119
username_y       231

password_x       119
password_y       231

# center feedback messages
# position is absolute
msg_x            595
msg_y            450

# center session messages
# position is absolute
session_x        595
session_y        395

# disable welcome message
# position is absolute
welcome_x         -1
welcome_y         -1

## text

username_msg              username:
password_msg              password:
passwd_feedback_msg       ACCESS DENIED
passwd_feedback_capslock  ACCESS DENIED (CapsLock is on)

input_color    #716c85
msg_color      #dad9dc
session_color  #dad9dc
username_color #dad9dc

input_font     Open Sans:medium:size=14:dpi=96
msg_font       Open Sans:medium:size=18:dpi=96
session_font   Open Sans:medium:size=14:dpi=96
username_font  Open Sans:medium:size=14:dpi=96

You might also want to look at this: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=581