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Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

dummy@example.com (jirkas) — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:27:16 +0000

Thank you for your quick reply and for the explanation.

Questions about Upgrading Exe GNU/Linux

dummy@example.com (dzz) — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:15:58 +0000

Devuan specific installation of TDE is actually documented quite well.

"Preliminary stable" is the TDE rolling release, available for all Devuan releases but mainly for freia/ceres.

deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x excalibur deps main

is all you want unless you got a reason to use their rolling release.

If you don't use librewolf, best uninstall it, comment or remove the repo list and install your browser of choice from the main Devuan repo.

The exegnu.list hosts some custom debs, non-essential post-installation.

Thanks Marjorie (and greetings from across the River Exe!) the rest is as you say.

Hope your upgrade goes well!

Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:12:04 +0000

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

does the device plug-in get logged in X11 log? in syslog? I think X11 needs the libinput module for hotpluggable devices, and that this interacts with udev

I've solved the issue: it seems that a prior input-only OS_SUBSYSTEM filter applied to zzz-udev-compat.act in the vdevd.1 profile left DRM without G:seat / E:ID_SEAT entries. Thanks

Genuen

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:10:17 +0000

Thanks, I added xserver-xlibre-video-qxl and removed 20-nouveau.conf

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

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:22:53 +0000

Updated the ob-max-z, I think maybe now leap-frogging the max and mini makes it easier.
Many updates to key packages including a new kernel, kinda crazy how oldstable is getting this
many updates, possibly folks are starting to see that this is the last good and stable OS
that we're likely to see from upstream. Added lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings for a nice GUI
way to change those settings. Swapped out Nitrogen for VuuPaper, more features and much
smaller size. Updated extensions etc.

Where is the release information stored?

dummy@example.com (chabala) — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:45:16 +0000

Looks like I'm running Debian something:

$ uname -a
Linux hp845g8 6.1.0-49-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.174-1 (2026-05-26) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I can make scripts:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

shopt -s nullglob

for file in /etc/*version /etc/*release; do
    echo "$file:"
    cat "$file"
done

$ ./checkRelease 
/etc/debian_version:
12.6
/etc/devuan_version:
daedalus
/etc/os-release:

But, do we need to code-golf this? Or can we just put some data in the os-release file?

[SOLVED] New Devuan Derivative Beep OS Released!

dummy@example.com (soumya65536) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:23:21 +0000

apologies for shouting, admin.

[SOLVED] GENUEN updating packages is disabled

dummy@example.com (gfp) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:19:14 +0000

ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org
hwclock --systohc

with sudo it worked for me
no problem

thanks very much aitor

Which tool is best for Devuan Derivative-making?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:26:59 +0000

I haven't used live-build in over 10 years and never on devuan. I know there are some people who have used it with devuan.
Devuan live-sdk is similar to live-build in that it pulls packages from the repo and builds the system in a chroot. This is good if you're making a lot of different isos - you just need to alter the configs to do a different build. The downside is that you often don't know the build failed until the end of the run, then you have to start over. When you start building a new release, you can have frequent failures in the beginning because some packages in your list might not be in the repo anymore or may have changed names.

refractasnapshot does not require access to the repo to build the iso. It makes a copy of your running system with a few things excluded and puts that into the iso. Since it's copying an installed system, any questions about missing packages have already been answered before you started to make the iso. Also, since it's copying the running system, any changes you make right before running it will be copied into the iso. The downside of this method is that you must have an installed system, either on hardware or in a virtual machine, for each flavor you want to build.

To adjust what gets copied by refractasnapshot, edit /usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list. See 'man rsync' for details.

Edit: one more difference between live-build or live-sdk and refractasnapshot is that refractasnapshot builds an iso that has an unprivileged user with a home directory. The others do not, but the live-config scripts create the user and home when the system boots. This affects which live-config options are used in the boot command. See 'man live-config' and probably 'man live-boot' too.
Note that live-build, live-sdk and refractasnapshot all use the debian live-boot and live-config scripts.

I don't know what those others are.

Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:27:08 +0000

New version uploaded (non-Xlibre) just a few minutes ago, some 137 updates including a new kernel, plus a band-aid for the NM issue that's been talked about in a few threads here. Easy way to try Devuan's Mate which is superb, when I first tried Devuan 10 years ago it was the first thing I tried, and I still use it very regularly. Give it a whirl!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

Again please note: NOT an official Devuan iso! And not efi-enabled. Old-school to the core and proud of it.

why peppermintos?

dummy@example.com (yohno) — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:08:31 +0000

For your information, Peppermint Devuan Excalibur iso of test build is available now since May 10th.

https://peppermintos.com/2026/05/pepper … n-testing/

I found it today and installed on intel pc only. Its size is with 1.3gb. After adding firmware(s) for amd pc, it ran perfectly on amd pc as well.
I like it pretty much, by the way.

List of Devuan derivatives

dummy@example.com (soumya65536) — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:50:42 +0000

Sweet! downloading here shortly, this is of great interest to me as i'm still working on building a server to host a Devuan repo. Can I pick your brains via PM to get some tips?

Yes, surely, would like to contribute!

[SOLVED] MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

dummy@example.com (Valera) — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:30:34 +0000

sudo apt install bluedevil
sudo apt install ufw

Added to ISO.

MXD-Plasma-dinit. https://mega.nz/file/rixGSJrC#wpl1J0cOv … stF45Hcjus

New Vendefoul Wolf based on latest Devuan Excalibur

dummy@example.com (tau) — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:20:25 +0000

Installed the Vendewolf LXQT DE on a Lenovo MiiX 510-121kb that I recently acquired. Long time Debian user but have been looking for an excuse to try Devuan out and this seemed the ideal opportunity. Was looking to go super lightweight although TBF the Lenovo isn't exactly poorly spec'd with intel i5 7200 cpu, 8gb RAM, 256gb SSD. So can confirm that encryption also failed on LXQT install but the upside is that the etc/sudoers.d file was empty. One or two minor bugs but presumably there will be a tweaks update before too long.

It's possible that the dev's have already tidied up some of the issues previously reported and I have found this install to be an enjoyable experience so far, so I might just stick with it for now at least, assuming there are no more surprises. One thing I can report is it's lightening fast on this 6 year old mid range Lenovo laptop.

[SOLVED] REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:26:21 +0000

Refracta has

- few metapackages and excludes Recommends to make it leaner and easier to remove packages to customize the system. It used to fit on one CD.
- added diagnostic, rescue and repair tools, mostly cli.
- a few config tweaks - kernel.sysrq=1 in sysctl.conf, ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS in adduser.conf, ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes in /etc/default/su and a few others.
- openssh-server running so you can log in remotely if there's no display. NOTE: The world knows your password. You should be behind a router and not have port forwarding set up or else unplug the network cable.
- Refracta is older than Devuan. That's why the version numbers match Debian's.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but those are the main differences.