For zoom, I use chromium browser. If you have a link to a zoom meeting, ignore all the suggestions to install zoom and scroll to the bottom of the page to enter the meeting in your web browser.

For skype, you need to use a third-party package (thanks, microsoft!). Use the package for the corresponding version of debian. (bullseye = chimaera, bookworm = daedalus)
Is skype not installable in gnuinos? I have no idea how the libre kernel handles that.

I didn't mention it, but another option is to use one of the installer isos instead of a live iso. The installer isos use the debian-installer (modified for devuan) that you may be more accustomed to. That one will let you select a partition for home and not format it, so you can re-use your files.

Either way, you should have all your files backed up somewhere before installing.

If you installed from a live-iso, see if this file exists:

ls -l /usr/sbin/anacron.orig.anacron

If it does, run the following (as root): 

rm /usr/sbin/anacron
dpkg-divert --rename --remove /usr/sbin/anacron

No, that's not the case at all. Devuan users have to wait a few hours after debian posts updates. The actual time it takes for the mirrors to update varies, but I think the longest is four hours.

The part that might not be ready is the installer isos and live isos. Those have to be put together and all the pieces might not be done today. I think we finished writing the release docs, but I'm not certain. Daedalus itself is ready. You can take your chances installing it from one of the new isos that might still have some bugs, or you can do a minimal install of chimaera and upgrade to daedalus, or if you already have chimaera, you can upgrade to daedalus.

If you use one of the new isos and find some bugs, you could let us know so we can fix it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right about the delay. You can also run into problems if the server goes down while the client still has the share mounted. (I just did that to myself about an hour ago.)

I find it better to use autofs, which will mount the share when you try to use it.

In the installed system, you should be able to set language and keyboard by running (as root or with sudo)

dpkg-reconfigure locales
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

You can configure more than one language and keyboard and choose which one is the default.

If you want to change the language and keyboard when you boot a live-CD or live-USB, edit the  boot command to add

locales=de_DE.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=de

  Note: To access the boot command at the boot menu, press TAB if you booted legacy bios or press e if you booted UEFI.

It looks like you did things in the right order. When I do installs like that, it sometimes takes me a few tries to get it right.
Check /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab, /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I think something is aiming for the wrong target.

If you want encryption and you want a swap partition, it's easier to do it with encrypted lvm. Then the OS partition(s) and swap will all be part of the encrypted volume. If you just want a single partition, you could use a swap file.

As an example, I use a 256MB swapfile on a laptop. None of that is being used at the moment. On my desktop machine I have a 1GB swapfile, and 16 MB of that are in use. On a server that runs radio automation software (constantly playing music from a playlist) that has LVM and RAID, the 256MB swapfile is about half full. These machines have 6 or 8 GB RAM.

Note: Encryption only works when the computer is turned off. It's useful in case someone steals your computer or you have to send the hard drive out for replacement or repair.

If you're worried about writes to the  ssd, you could put the swap on one or both of the spinning disks. You would need to make the RAID from partitions instead of the whole drive, to leave room for a swap partition. Oh, I suppose you could put a swapfile inside the RAID. That might be easier. Then you don't need to make the extra partition.

This one is a few days old. It's for ceres, but there should be a screen early in the install that asks what suite you want. You might need to choose expert install to get that question.
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/

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Then they might need to avoid metapackages that pull in things that might conflict with other things they want.

For better granularity in package selection, un-check everything at the tasksel window except maybe Standard System Utilities. You probably want those. Then add what you want after you reboot into the new system.

Use the option "--no-install-recommends" when you install packages. If that will exclude something you want, then add that package to your list of things to install. You can use "--simulate" with apt-get apt or aptitude to check what will happen before you actually do it.

Here's a list of what task-console-productivity pulls in.

apt show task-console-productivity
<snip>
Recommends: dialog, zsh, entr, gddrescue, gdisk, htop, iftop, iotop, iw, mtr-tiny, multitail, ncdu, parted, pciutils, psmisc, sudo, time, wavemon, wireless-tools, wpasupplicant, ed, zile, bind9-host, bittornado, curl, dnsutils, edbrowse, fetchmail, ftp, geoip-bin, irssi, lftp, links2, lrzsz, mcabber, minicom, mosh, msmtp, mutt, netcat, net-tools, nfacct, nrss, openssh-client, openssh-server, procmail, rsync, telnet, tin, traceroute, w3m, wget, whois, abook, apcalc, aspell, aspell-en, calcurse, clex, dvtm, fbi, fbterm, ghostscript, gnupg, gnupg2, gnupg-agent, mc, parallel, poppler-utils, rpl, rename, sc, screen, taskwarrior, tmux, bastet, bombardier, bsdgames, cavezofphear, crawl, curseofwar, empire, freesweep, gnuchess, greed, matanza, moria, nethack-console, ninvaders, omega-rpg, pacman4console, pente, sudoku, beep, brltty, espeak, espeakup, yasr, alsa-utils, caca-utils, hasciicam, imagemagick, jhead, moc, radio, sox, cmatrix, cowsay, eject, figlet, fortunes-min, fortune-mod, gpm, man-db, manpages, manpages-dev, mlocate, termsaver, toilet, toilet-fonts, ttyrec, unzip

'apt show luit' give me this:

Breaks: x11-utils (<< 7.7+6)
Replaces: x11-utils (<< 7.7+6)

which suggests that luit might work with newer x11-utils than what is in ceres/daedalus (7.7+5) so maybe you can't have both luit and xorg or maybe a newer xorg is coming at the last hour before bookworm release. Have you looked for any debian bug reports about this? That might tell you if they have plans to fix it.

One way to do it would be to install the second system without installing a bootloader and then run 'update-grub' in the first system. The new installation will be added (if os-prober is installed and enabled in /etc/default/grub).

If you want the second system to be the one in charge of booting, you can give it a different name. Boot into second system and run

grub-install --bootloader-id=somecoolname
update-grub

and then the boot files will be in /boot/efi/EFI/somecoolname

Edit: If your computer's uefi works like mine, the new one will be set to boot first.
And, if your computer's uefi works the way it's supposed to work, you'll also be able to change the boot order with efibootmgr.

This looks like what I get on one laptop when I run the debian/devuan installer. You might be able to specify a screen resolution at the boot screen. If you're booting uefi, you can edit the selected entry in the boot menu by pressing e and then adding a line before the linux line that says set gfxpayload=<some resolution that works> then press ctrl-x to boot.

If you're booting legacy bios, you get an isolinux boot menu and you can press TAB to edit the boot command and add vga=<some vga mode that works>

Maybe check what the screen resolution is when you're running the desktop-live system and use that.