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#26 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Wifi disabled on boot – wlan soft blocked, how to determine why? » 2020-09-04 11:42:20
why would you remove the ath10k_pci kernel module ? what was the need for that measure?
Maybe try reinstalling non-free package firmware-atheros and update the initramfs then reboot.
#27 Re: ARM Builds » mnt reform support? » 2020-09-03 14:08:26
You say that "Debian apparently will support this soon." Do you mean instead, that the platform will support running Debian on it? I expect that if it runs Debian, then it should be possible to get Devuan on it.
Hopefully systemd cant get its hooks in.
#28 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2020-09-03 12:53:18
HevyDevy wrote:randomer wrote:Has anyone tried Hyperbola and their fork of Basilisk, Iceweasel-UXP? https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … redirect=1
I did a few months ago, the non free aspect of it killed my hopes of a working wifi connection though, no free drivers so i was stuck tethered to the phone for network. Good distro though and you can make it really lightweight and resource friendly. Iceweasel was good and worked ok, addons are not very straight forward and you cant just add them from firefox if memory serves me correct.
It depends, I have done exactly that with xul firefox addons to iceweasel-uxp. Webextension ones, no way in hell though.
One laptop i have devuan on for gaming, but otherwise they will be running hyperbola from now on.
So you think the mozilla addons are not really a safe option? Like say ublock origin for firefox-esr ?
hyperbola have an interesting future ahead, im looking forward to seeing what they come up with in regards to porting openbsd.
#29 Re: ARM Builds » mnt reform support? » 2020-09-03 12:34:23
Looks like an interesting endeavor. Its good to see that some people care about not making products via the planned obsolescence route for whole products like a laptop, this is the way of the future we need to have more products that are easily repairable and up-gradable and also open source. It would be so much better if we bought say a tv that was able to be easily repaired, like say the screen broke and you could cost effectively replace it without having to replace the whole tv.
#30 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2020-09-02 15:30:12
@ brocashelm.
Bathory - One Rode to ASA Bay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHXC4G5YH4
Spoken only way up high
Now this house of a foreign God does stand
Now must they leave us alone
Still he heard from somewhere in the woods
Old crow of wisdom say
...people of Asa land, it's only just begun...
#31 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2020-09-02 14:37:02
That they are brocashelm.
One for September.
Type O Negative - September Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n67NHhfWUCM
#32 Re: Off-topic » (solved) grub custom menu for other distro using F2FS filesystem. » 2020-09-02 11:53:50
Yeah i could have artix take over boot management but too many missions and i want to have devuan be the main stable os and not introduce anything from unstable. I was basically wanting to see how well f2fs would run on a partition using artix, ive since deleted the artix partition, so problem solved 
. Thanks for your input.
#33 Re: Off-topic » (solved) grub custom menu for other distro using F2FS filesystem. » 2020-09-01 07:47:18
After doing some digging, looks like i may be right. grub2 version 2.04 brings support for f2fs but that is currently in testing.
I wonder if there is a workaround? I tried copying to the custom grub menu the entry that artix linux creates and it complains of not having /boot/grub/i386-pc/f2fs.mod loaded (and yes i do have f2fs-tools installed in devuan and artix), so i wonder if i could just move that module there into stable grub, probably break something though.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … ug/1868664
https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub … 31d165782b
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=grub2
This is the custom grub menu in /etc/grub.d/40_custom im using.
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry 'Artix Linux' --class artix --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-<UUID>' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod f2fs
set root='hd0,msdos3'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-ieee1275='ieee1275//disk@0,msdos3' --hint-bios=hd0,msdos3 --hin
t-efi=hd0,msdos3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos3 <UUID>
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root <UUID>
fi
echo 'Loading Linux linux-lts ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts root=UUID=<UUID> rw loglevel=3 quiet
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
}#34 Re: Off-topic » (solved) grub custom menu for other distro using F2FS filesystem. » 2020-09-01 02:09:25
No luck, i think its the f2fs filesystem im trying to use is not compatible with devuan/debians grub.
I can install artix grub from a chroot on the artix partition and update grub there and boot into artix fine, but if i try the custom menu entry it just says filesytem not found so im pretty sure its a grub devuan issue.
#35 Off-topic » (solved) grub custom menu for other distro using F2FS filesystem. » 2020-08-31 13:02:45
- HevyDevy
- Replies: 6
Not real sure how to do this, i want to create custom boot menu for another linux (artix linux) that will be installed alongside devuan.
Current setup is.
Devuan boot parttion = /dev/sda1
Devuan root partition = /dev/sda2
Artix on /dev/sda3
This is because i may have stuffed up installing artix or something is missing im not getting.
When i installed artix i only mounted sda3 to /mnt and not the devuan sda1 partition for the boot loader. My thinking was grub and os-prober would pick up /dev/sda3 as artix inside devuan when i update-grub there but this is not the case as update-grub just finds unknown linux distro and it dont boot.
So my thinking is maybe i could create boot menu like so below but even this does not seem to work.
In /etc/grub.d/40_custom
menuentry "Artix" {
set root=(hd0,3)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
}This might all be stupid and ive stuffed up and should have mounted /dev/sda1 as /mnt/boot when pacstrap the install to begin with?
#36 Re: Installation » Dot in login » 2020-08-28 13:36:48
Old standards (POSIX) are like a blockage in the lining of the appendix? Not sure i understand your point clearly?
#37 Re: DIY » Brave Browser, firejail, firefox 78 to firefox 79 » 2020-08-26 12:28:03
firefox 79 on what linux ?
#38 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Alternative browser for Devuan/Debian - Brave » 2020-08-26 11:23:30
When i was looking at gnuinos distro the default web browser is otter browser. I was quite impressed by it, had some good privacy tools as default addons.
#39 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded » 2020-08-26 11:21:10
Nice work there Miyo, perfect for anyone wanting step into a bleeding edge devuan rolling distro.
#40 Re: Installation » Dot in login » 2020-08-25 13:38:01
Is it normal for Devuan to be unable to enter a username containing a dot?
This is what i get when i try to add a username with a dot.
~ > sudo adduser john.doe
[sudo] password for user1:
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.So default from installer would most likely not allow it, but you could perhaps do it manually after install.
Just reading up on this and it is due to POSIX compliance.
Have a read here: https://paulgorman.org/technical/presen … ntions.pdf
quite an interesting read.
#41 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2020-08-24 13:55:53
Deftones - Ohms
#42 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2020-08-24 13:42:10
HevyDevy wrote:What vulnerabilities could be in gnu grep?
Probably none, there have only been two known vulnerabilities reported for it: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2380 … ndor_id=72
But I was speaking in general terms — it is reasonable to assume that all code contains a number of bugs per thousand sloc so smaller code tends to be better (which is one of the reasons why I prefer OpenRC to systemd).
Also sometimes when people try to make programs better/efficient, more abstraction layers get added as is the case with intels issues with spectre/meltdown and the slew of vulnerabilities in a similar vein that have been added in the last few years. Not trying to compare gnu grep with intel but a worst case scenario. Systemd fits in right here with too many abstraction layers that could oneday come back to bite in regards to scope creep and the like.
#43 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2020-08-24 12:17:21
Vernon wrote:Be aware that BSD tools are different than GNU. For example, BSD grep is at least 10 times slower than GNU grep.
Be aware that OpenBSD has GNU's grep version in their ports tree: https://openports.se/sysutils/ggrep
OpenBSD avoids the GNU tools because of licensing incompatibilities but it's also worth noting that GNU's software tends to be rather bloated in respect of the codebase, which can expose potential vulnerabilities.
EDIT: for a rough example of this compare OpenBSD's grep.c (487 sloc) with GNU's grep.c (2177 sloc).
What vulnerabilities could be in gnu grep?
Regardless of sloc on either grep versions, the link vernon posted made good points about the efficiency of gnu grep over bsd grep.
And i am an Openbsd user, but in all reality the speed of grep is not going to stop me using it.
#44 Off-topic » ffmpeg / ffplay media player » 2020-08-23 12:26:33
- HevyDevy
- Replies: 0
just thought i would leave this here for anyone interested in giving it a try.
"FFplay is a very simple and portable media player using the FFmpeg libraries and the SDL library. It is mostly used as a testbed for the various FFmpeg APIs. "
https://ffmpeg.org/ffplay-all.html
just install ffmpeg for ffplay sudo apt install ffmpeg (you probably already have it as it is core part of most distributions for video playback.
there is no gui for ffplay that i am aware of, its all controlled via the keyboard.
Ive been using rox-filer lately, the "set run action" makes it easy to have ffplay run as a sort of library front end, you could of course use any file manager but rox is simple and small and rocks.One click and i have whatever vid i want up a running or it can be run from the terminal lto get all the verbose format info as the video is playing.
few scrots.
#45 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2020-08-21 15:43:34
Revisiting openbox and tint2 again. Somewhat of an alpine theme going on here.
#46 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2020-08-21 14:01:27
Bathory - In Nomine Satanas
#47 Re: Off-topic » Refracta-SnapShot - Question » 2020-08-21 13:43:25
As fsmithred mentioned it looks like the script (refractasnapshot) needs to accommodate lz4 or perhaps an easier way would be to change ubuntus /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf compression method (gzip instead of lz4 then update initramfs) and see how that goes with another snapshot and calamares testing.
Wait for fsmithred to confirm though, im just curious on this subject as i have something planned.
#48 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] mpv (0.29.1-1) dependent on python 2.7 » 2020-08-20 15:25:18
Maybe there is a way around using mpv? Perhaps another way of playing videos. I messed about ages ago with something called ffplay that i believe is part of ffmpeg. Worth a look if you are interested in something that sucks less and rocks!
#49 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] mpv (0.29.1-1) dependent on python 2.7 » 2020-08-20 14:59:25
testing is unstable nili. afaia, only stable/beowulf gets security updates that matter.
Q: How is security handled for testing?
A: Security for testing benefits from the security efforts of the entire project for unstable. However, there is a minimum two-day migration delay, and sometimes security fixes can be held up by transitions. The Security Team helps to move along those transitions holding back important security uploads, but this is not always possible and delays may occur. Especially in the months after a new stable release, when many new versions are uploaded to unstable, security fixes for testing may lag behind. If you want to have a secure (and stable) server you are strongly encouraged to stay with stable.
Q: How is security handled for contrib and non-free?
A: The short answer is: it's not. Contrib and non-free aren't official parts of the Debian Distribution and are not released, and thus not supported by the security team. Some non-free packages are distributed without source or without a license allowing the distribution of modified versions. In those cases no security fixes can be made at all. If it is possible to fix the problem, and the package maintainer or someone else provides correct updated packages, then the security team will generally process them and release an advisory.
#50 Re: Off-topic » Music » 2020-08-20 14:52:12
Everything Dies - Typ0 -
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