http://archive.debian.org/debian-securi … refox-esr/

Edit: I just noticed that those might be too old.

Better...
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/ma … refox-esr/

I like links2 for lightweight graphical browsing. It makes the internet look like 1995, which I find very soothing.

Live isos can boot the entire iso into RAM. That's an option in live-boot that isn't available in the installer isos. Add "toram" or maybe "toram=filesystem.squashfs" to the boot command for a live-usb and then it's not running from the usb stick. You could even remove the usb stick and keep running the system. Booting that way might allow you to install over the imaged usb, but then you have to get it right the first time or else start over with imaging the stick.

Are you sure it's the network that's slow? I find the whole system to be slow inside a virtual machine.

Bookworm to Daedalus should be similar to the migration of Bullseye to Chimaera.
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … o-chimaera

Here's a script to do it for you or look at the code for clues about what issues might come up. This script has probably had very little testing with bookworm/daedalus, but it was modified from bullseye/daedalus.
https://git.devuan.org/farmatito/migration

Basic Daedalus sources.list

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main

You could also look at some discussions on this forum about migrating from bullseye to chimaera. There are a few different approaches, and they don't all work for everyone.

*** Make sure you backup important files before you do this. ***

Applications Menu -> Multimedia -> Pulse Audio Volume Control (aka pavucontrol)

If you're not in XFCE, it's probably a slightly different path in the menu. If you still can't find it, open a terminal and run /usr/bin/pavucontrol

dist-upgrade will include anything that upgrade would provide. I think the part you missed was changing "chimaera" to "daedalus" in /etc/apt/sources.list (and then update so the local system knows what packages are available in the new suite.)

What does "did nothing" mean? How did you attempt to do the dist-upgrade? I did one the day before you tried, and it worked normally.

Something like this should work:
Change sources from chimaera to daedalus, then update and upgrade.

sed -i 's/chimaera/daedalus/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt upgrade
apt dist-upgrade

In debian/devuan, runit uses the sysvinit scripts by default, because there aren't run scripts for a lot of services. The gettys and a couple other things will use run scripts by default. Others are supplied by the runit-services package.

Note that there are some differences from void in the directories that are used for runit. I don't recall exactly what the differences are, but you'll figure it out.

Look for posts by Lorenzo on this forum for useful information. He's the debian maintainer for runit.

Ceres (Sid) never freezes, but the rate of new packages slows down right before a release. That's because everyone is working on finishing the next release. When it's released, then people start working on new packages again and the unstable branch gets faster changes.

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.