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#626 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Beowulf to Chimaera - precautions » 2024-03-07 17:25:28
Yeah . . . importing a profile is easy. The hard part is cleaning up the outdated and redundant files. Then there's about:config! Yikes!!
#627 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Beowulf to Chimaera - precautions » 2024-03-07 16:19:28
I stayed on Jessie for a looong time. Then websites stopped working properly both the layouts as well as interactive functions. That is what forced a move to fresh Chimaera install and it was a royal pain. Adapting FF and other browser profiles took days even weeks as did adapting to the new interfaces and options.
#628 Re: Off-topic » What do you think about electric cars? » 2024-03-05 23:08:50
Random thought . . . If we do not stop replicating, the choices we make will determine how the herd is culled.
#629 Re: Off-topic » What do you think about electric cars? » 2024-03-05 21:31:44
Techno fixes for whatever titillate our ravenous appetites for SNS and keeps the economy running but that just digs the hole deeper. The solution is not more but less. Less of everything that we are taught to need and crave.
I have a very low carbon footprint. My car is over 10 years old and has less than 25,000 miles on it. The only airplane I have been on in the last 25 years was to attend the Devuan Conference in 2019. Otherwise, I have not been more than @30 miles from my house. Paradise!!
#630 Re: Off-topic » fantastic evolutions: one of the best ones - Refractasnapshot » 2024-03-05 00:27:18
We all see the world through our own filters . . . yours are not the final word. Please stop this adolescent nonsense . . .
#631 Re: Off-topic » fantastic evolutions: one of the best ones - Refractasnapshot » 2024-03-04 18:51:03
Yes . . . your halo of beneficence shines brightly! 
Please give it a rest.
#632 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Beowulf to Chimaera - precautions » 2024-03-04 16:00:21
Andre4freedom . . .
You can create an account at our git.devuan.org and post your document there then link to it as appropriate . . .
#633 Re: Off-topic » fantastic evolutions: one of the best ones - Refractasnapshot » 2024-03-04 01:35:05
Still beating that drum, alexkemp? Time to move on . . .
#634 Re: Installation » libelogind-compat has incompatible version » 2024-03-03 22:00:18
It is mandatory in Excalibur but if upgrading from Daedalus, the merge MUST be done BEFORE the upgrade or . . . consequences. Hope you can work it out. You might be able to fix it . . .
#635 Re: Installation » libelogind-compat has incompatible version » 2024-03-03 21:41:46
Did you follow these instructions before upgrading to Excalibur?
#636 Re: Devuan Derivatives » my snapshot Devuan CERES Star 32 bit 2024/02/22 » 2024-02-29 18:06:42
Well . . . Happy Birthday, oui!
#637 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2024-02-29 16:14:52
@stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn . . . Thanks! I learned a new word - agorism - which I will soon forget. All that wordiness makes my head spin! That being said I have lived my life very much on those principles not from being taught but from an inner "knowing". FWIW, I was advocating for Zero Population Growth in the 70s. I never understood the human urge to replicate. Fortunately, that was at a time when reproductive rights were a choice so could permanently protect myself from an oopsie. Not even a hint of regret. Just gratitude for the freedom to have a life of unlimited exploration . . .
#638 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » merged /usr » 2024-02-26 17:05:03
That depends on how and when the merge is activated as well as the non-standard choices made by the user prior to the merge. Please see this usrmerge announcement posted a few days ago.
#639 News & Announcements » UsrMerge Status: Testing/Excalibur and more » 2024-02-20 22:08:24
- golinux
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Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,
This announcement[1] looks to Devuan's future and also to its
beginnings in 2015.
Debian is proceeding with a full implementation of the merged usr file
structure[2] during this current testing cycle. In order to focus Devuan's
available resources on our primary purpose regarding systemd, Devuan
developers have decided it is in the project's best interest to implement
the usrmerge.
# Navigating the merged usr transition
1. Daedalus/stable is the final Devuan release that will function without
merged usr.
2. The safest way to migrate from Daedalus/stable to Excalibur/testing
is to first ensure there is sufficient disk space to accommodate the merge
and that you have made backups before proceeding.
3. Only then install the usrmerge package BEFORE proceeding with the
normal dist-upgrade steps.
4. This document will be updated to reflect future changes as needed.
# Happy Birthday Devuan!
This announcement also celebrates Devuan's 9th birthday as the first
pre-alpha ISO was gifted to us on Valentine's Day 2015. The iconic boot
screen[3] was created for the event. Devuan's journey has been and
continues to be a labor of Love for all of us. Love of Linux. Love of
freedom. And Love of everyone on Starship Devuan.
Note that the timing was also a prophetic salute to Leonard Nimoy
who died less than two weeks after the release.
May Devuan live long and prosper!
The Devuan Dev Team
[1] https://devuan.org/os/announce/excalibu … 02-20.html
#640 Re: Devuan » Getting rid of "frankenstein" packages » 2024-02-20 17:25:28
Do have a look at this page to understand the Devuan/Debian release relationships:
#641 Re: Installation » upgrade Chimaera with Daedelus? » 2024-02-18 18:15:18
Can't you just do it in a terminal? A disc shouldn't be needed for a dist upgrade. Or so I remember seeing on this forum. I have not done it myself that I can remember.
#642 Re: Other Issues » Clear logs » 2024-02-17 01:12:35
I am still on spinning rust . . . and at my age could very well have a lifetime supply in my stash . . .
#643 Re: Devuan Derivatives » antiX 23.1 "init-diversity" edition » 2024-02-16 21:08:28
Anticapitalista was a regular here for years. Was very sorry that he decided to leave us because of another user's borderline posts. I miss him . . .
#644 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2024-02-16 00:42:41
How did garlic get into the joke thread? Do some posts need to be moved?
#645 Re: Devuan » Repositories » 2024-02-15 23:25:41
@herbie . . . Are you aware that there is an official Peppermint Devuan Edition?
#646 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » wasted $ on multi function keyboard and mouse » 2024-02-15 00:44:19
I am guilty as accused . . .
Please don't take my observations personally. All too often I see humans, much like the fish chomping on a juicy worm hiding the hook, not getting quite what they bargained for. Over the years I have learned to curb my appetite and found it makes life much less complicated . . .
#647 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » wasted $ on multi function keyboard and mouse » 2024-02-14 21:34:19
I use a generic usb Logitech K120 and Dell PS/2 Ball Mouse. Nothing fancy but it "just works". Shiny new s*** is just a cash cow targeting gullible folks who fall for the hype . . .
#648 Re: Off-topic » USA Foods » 2024-02-14 20:44:04
@aluma . . . 
Imagine rain flowing down a mountain. It does not flow in just one channel. There are many channels that branch off and form ponds or even lakes. So it is with our wanderings in space and time that have brought us together in the Devuan pond. It sustains a very unique collection of individuals the likes of which I have not encountered elsewhere in over 8 decades of searching . . .
#649 Re: Off-topic » USA Foods » 2024-02-14 15:46:02
There is an opinion that all our illnesses begin from our brain. From this, the result will be determined by our thoughts while eating, by how we look at it.
This tidbit of wisdom gifted to me many decades ago by a Burmese monk:
" Maybe you are what you eat but you become what you think."
#650 Re: Freedom Hacks » Securing my/our computer systems » 2024-02-13 00:31:23
I don't understand why anyone with connected brain-cells would touch facebook. IOW the problem isn't Facebook because it is a CHOICE to use or not to use it.
But then . . . humans are egregiously lacking in self control and all too often end up screwing themselves by indulging in things they think they have to have . . .
The solution is to just say NO!
Thoughts from an old and cranky observer of human behavior . . .
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