Vuu-do Linux! *New Openbox-64 iso's (1.0.7) up 2-02-18*!!

yohno · 2025-10-28 13:31:13

@greenjaens, have you noticed the comment of reader's review /comment that posted for EXTROX distro in Sourceforge? Here is the shortcut, that siad that Vuu-do is the only one that could play at 2160p in youtube video. Vuu-do is really amazing!

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resou … tro=extrox

greenjeans · 2025-10-28 15:29:38

Hi @yohno, thanks for that link! That looks like a new record for age-of-machine (2003), I have a 2005 laptop in my garage running Vuu-do, it only has 1 gb of ram so I haven't messed around with YT videos or anything too heavy, just playing music and looking up car parts on the interwebz.

The only other distros that could play 1080p video without stutter is Void Linux, Chimera Linux and Vuu-do Linux. I have tried about 103 distributions so far, and only these four could play YouTube videos in 1080p. Void and Vuu-do went a notch higher and could play the same video in 1440p. The video I used to test is "In Da Club" by 50 Cent. The reason I chose this video for testing is that it has bit rates from 144p all the way up to 2160p. Vuu-do is the only one that could play at 2160p, but with massive stutter, other Linux distros just had a static image at 2160p.

Vuu-do is on the Distrowatch waiting list as of August, I haven't submitted it because I don't think it's quite ready, but apparently they got a number of searches for Vuu-do in the last year, so they added it themselves with a link to my Sourceforge files so folks could find it, and also so people would know that it's on the list and doesn't need to be re-submitted.

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yohno · 2025-10-30 08:09:23

@greenjeans, I think we, at least myself, are having the problem on the latest version of Vuu-do-5.03-ob-max-z-20251024_2043.iso. I spent for a day to find out any solution but I do not find it. The problem is not allowing untrusted stuff.... For example, the tool of my-crappy radio player by miyolinux does not allowed to run since all components need t.o be manually installed or moved/copied to /usr/local/bin, etc.. the tool of firejail is not helpful. Can you make the additional work using the previous version or solve by yourself to remove this problem? I saw the initial condition with 2 items of en_us but all countries stuff installed after updating. I do not know if you are aware of. Thanks in advance ... yoshi

P.S, If this change is from your intention. Then please forgive me. We are still in daedalus but not excalibur yet. But I faced this problem already om daedalus using obamen.py for openbox the other day on devuan 5.

greenjeans · 2025-10-30 20:01:41

@yohno, perhaps something is lost in the translation here as i'm having a hard time understanding the issue.

I downloaded the latest copy of Dan's my-crappy-radio-player, followed his install instructions and it plays fine. I did have to install the package dialog as that isn't included in Vuu-do by default.

You need to make sure permissions are correct for the files after moving them, and make the main script executable.

EDIT: Regarding the radio player:

1. Stations #48 and #49 do not work nor will they, any of the urls that have a "session-id" will not work past the first 24 hours when they were first accessed and put on the list. There's a lot of these kinds of stations out there, they basically issue 24 hour leases of a sort, and after 24 hours that url will no longer work.

2. If you add "-hide_banner" to the ffplay command at the top of the script, it will eliminate all that extra info it spits out in terminal when you start playing something, looks much cleaner!

If it was okay with Dan i'd offer to make a couple of changes and actually package it. Packaging would eliminate any issues with a manual install, i'd also make a wrapper script to start it up if it were up to me, easy way to run the xresources commands when you fire it up rather than having to do it manually or add to autostart.

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yohno · 2025-10-30 22:25:22

@greenjeans, thanks for your time. I reinstalled one more time. Finally I noticed that I forgot to edit .asoundrc to connect to the correct sound card. That's easy fix, though. Appreciated your kind offer for the code changes, etc. .... yoshi

greenjeans · 2025-11-01 18:54:29

Finally I noticed that I forgot to edit .asoundrc to connect to the correct sound card. That's easy fix, though.

Yeah it can be a little confusing when you try an alsa-only system, but looks like you got it handled!

For reference there's a readme for AlsaTune in /usr/share/mxeq/readme.txt that both explains Alsatune and also has some info on dealing with .asoundrc and .asound.conf in single and multiple sound card systems.

greenjeans · 2025-11-06 19:51:28

11-06-2025 New versions uploaded.

Updates to Chromium and GIMP, some changes to sources.list, updates to VMAN and VAI
and ScrotShot and some general cleanup. Just tweaking and fixing the little things.
Re-worked sources.list to use deb.devuan.org by default but still have the gnulug
entries for folks who live in the continental US. Scrotshot is now set to open screenie
previews with Gpicview, but that behavior can be changed in the scripts and there are
comments in both (scrotshot, scrotselect) that explain how to do it. Some general cleanup
and behavior tweaks.

Ron · Today 14:24:51

greenjeans wrote:
11-06-2025 New versions uploaded.

Hi greenjeans. Thanks for these builds. Today I downloaded the Devuan-Mate-Mini-6-20250901_1322.iso version and ran it in a live session. I added the Chromium browser to the live session and when I went to open it, I got a message that the keyring was not unlocked. I dismissed the message, and Chromium worked as it should. To see if I would get the keyring message again, I closed Chromium and then reopened it. I got the keyring message again, but again after dismissing it everything continued to work.

My question is, if I install your spin, will I continue to get this keyring message?

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn · Today 15:18:54

have used chromium for years while always just dismissing that keyring pop-up

there is probably an easy way to fix it but it never bothered me enough to deal with it

greenjeans · Today 15:48:05

Hi Ron, password storage issue that's been going on for soooo many years. Previously you could (as root) append password-store=basic to the exec line in Chromium's .desktop in /usr/share/applications and that might still work.

Exec=/usr/bin/chromium --password-store=basic %U

Problem is the gnome-keyring package here, I solved it in Vuu-do by uninstalling it, which causes Chromium to revert to basic storage. If you store online passwords at all you might look into one of the password managers, the gnome-keyring doesn't work well when it works at all.

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Ron · Today 16:17:03

greenjeans wrote:
Problem is the gnome-keyring package here, I solved it in Vuu-do by uninstalling it

So if this problem pops up in a fresh install, all I need to do is delete gnome-keyring package? (I don't store passwords anywhere except on a piece of paper.)

tux_99 · Today 17:50:10

greenjeans wrote:

That looks like a new record for age-of-machine (2003),

That's probably a typo, he must have meant 2013 as DDR3 did not exist in 2003 and nobody (except servers and maybe very high-end workstations) had 4 GB of RAM in 2003, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM was typical in 2013.

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greenjeans · Today 18:08:57

So if this problem pops up in a fresh install, all I need to do is delete gnome-keyring package? (I don't store passwords anywhere except on a piece of paper.)

Same here and that's what I did, no issues since then. It's not installed in the Vuu-do iso's, but the Devuan spins come with it by default.

greenjeans · Today 18:12:43

That's probably a typo, he must have meant 2013 as DDR3 did not exist in 2003 and nobody (except servers and maybe very high-end workstations) had 4 GB of RAM in 2003, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM was typical in 2013.

Or possibly the DDR3 is the typo, I do have a 2005 machine running Vuu-do out in my garage (only 1 gb of ram though), so I know it runs well on these old machines.

Ron · Today 18:51:03

greenjeans wrote:
It's not installed in the Vuu-do iso's

I'm confused. Then what caused the keyring not unlocked message?

greenjeans · Today 19:04:23

I'm confused. Then what caused the keyring not unlocked message?

You downloaded the Devuan-mate-mini, not one of the Vuu-do isos, the Devuan spins of Mate are just vanilla Devuan with no customization on my part, made from netinstalls and snapshotted along the way for testing purposes these last few months.

Ron · Today 19:14:04

Ah, okay, I see. Thanks for your patience.

Are you planning to release a Vuu-do based on Excalibur?

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greenjeans · Today 20:16:04

Are you planning to release a Vuu-do based on Excalibur?

I am at some point, for Vuu-do I stay off the cutting edge and go for pure stability, so i'm going to wait a while and let the dust settle before I start to build. Right now i'm still focused on the Daedalus versions as there's still work to be done, and also testing/bug-hunting/fixing stuff where i'm able to help in Devuan Excalibur so we can get it all dialed in and folks can roll up some new spins.

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