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#201 Re: News & Announcements » Devuan 2.0 ASCII Release Candidate » 2018-05-12 20:06:18
I use ASCII RC on productive systems now. The Cinnamon-OpenRC install is just perfectly stable and flawless.
When I use XFCE4 and OpenRC I get a few bumps, but they are easy to overcome.
One note: on the XFCE4 desktop the administrative tools cannot be launched using the XFCE4-menu. You have to do a "gksu synaptic" in a terminal - that works well.
Even ICA-Client (Citrix Desktop), skype and the latest LibreOffice 6.0.4 work perfectly well.
So to say: if it's for me - this version is ready for stable. Congratulations. And a BIG THANK YOU!
André
#202 Re: Devuan » Some ASCII love » 2018-05-08 11:18:48
To golinux and all:
Please let me re-post this:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=8912#p8912
I can only say: thank you and congratulations! ASCII is the way for me to go.
#203 Re: Off-topic » To leave a very positive comment » 2018-05-08 09:45:49
Hello,
just to add to it:
I have tested Devuan ASCII quite throughly and I can say only this:
I am very happy. Devuan ASCII has become VERY stable and reliable.
I do mostly fresh installs and choose directly:
-graphical custom install
-select Cinnamon DE (sometimes XFCE for slower machines)
-select OpenRC
It looks you are going RC and then "stable" soon. I will switch my systems from Linux Mint to Devuan.
No systemd: Great work done!
CONGATULATIONS and THANK YOU!
Andre
#204 Re: Off-topic » Cool Random Internet Stuff » 2018-05-02 11:12:39
Just seeing it: what a nice post, most amusing.. but: You could have posted it a month ago. Maybe it's a bit different in Down-Under?
#205 Off-topic » To leave a very positive comment » 2018-04-10 11:54:48
- Andre4freedom
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Hello
Nowhere can I find a place to leave a positive and thumbs-up comment, so I do it here.
Testing Ascii Beta, fresh install and with fine-tuned install options:
- OpenRC
- XFCE4
- lxdm (changed after installation)
- and the necessary tools
Result: I have a very, VERY stable system, working reliably and enabling me to do amazing things that just work! No complaints to make at all. Being a .deb-based distribution gives me the ease to work in my best known ways and resolve problems easily, should they ever occur. Nicest surprise: even minidlna can be found in your repos and it works perfectly well with OpenRC. It seems that the old InitSysV-style init script, found in /etc/init.d is entirely compatible with the OpenRC commands.
Fantastic to have a system that boots, works and shuts down reliably and VERY FAST. No crap clogging the system resources.
You are giving back to the community what it desperately needs: freedom of choice and a good, stable Linux to work on.
I want to thank you for your excellent work and encourage you to follow your path.
Have a good day,
André
PS: is anything new in the crystal-ball about a release date of ASCII stable?
#206 Re: Installation » Devuan Ascii Beta and repositories! » 2018-03-19 15:06:40
Synaptic will not work when started from the xfce menu: the path is wrong...
You can start synaptic either
- as root (even from the menu, or in the shell) or
- gksu synaptic (as an ordinary user with sudo group-membership)
I would do it the old way:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Important: set up the repos first!
BTW: there are ASCII-Beta isos!
There is good documentation in this forum. Find it. Good luck!
#207 Re: News & Announcements » Devuan 2.0 ASCII Beta is here! » 2018-02-19 15:02:58
Hello fsmithred and sgage
I can confirm this, in xfce (and Cinnamon), some menu entries do not work: i.e. synaptic. Started from a terminal (gksu synaptic), all goes well.
Anyway, CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU, to you Devuan-ers, for that fantastic work of yours. I'm especially happy with the implementation of OpenRC. And it's the Debian-like handling which I am grateful for. Devuan ASCII Beta / x86_64 / xfce / Cinnamon.
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