That was a good read, your experience was much like mine. I was using KDE on SuSE/openSUSE for 19-20 years, and in recent years I found myself longing for the good old days of KDE 3.x. I found exe gnu linux in about 2019 and fell in love with it. The day I tried exe gnu for the first time was the last day for me on openSUSE.

Thanks, Andy!  I definitely feel the same way about KDE 3.x and (what turned in to) Trinity.  It's certainly the DE that works best for me and Exe seems to have the perfect implementation of it.  Thanks for taking the time to read my blog post!

It's been over a year since I switched my main OS over to Exe GNU/Linux.  If anyone is interested, here's my "Year In Review" running Exe.  For the record, I'm running a fully updated i386 Exe (ascii) install with TDE 14.0.10.

That was a good read, your experience was much like mine. I was using KDE on SuSE/openSUSE for 19-20 years, and in recent years I found myself longing for the good old days of KDE 3.x. I found exe gnu linux in about 2019 and fell in love with it. The day I tried exe gnu for the first time was the last day for me on openSUSE.

I hope it's okay with the community here, I've just posted a review of my experiences with Exe on by blog, HERE, if anyone is interested in giving it a read.  However, as you reading this are most likely a Devuan user already, my review will be preaching to the choir.

dzz, would you consider sharing the things that you learnt while making exe linux by creating a wiki page with advices and tweaks for the users who "manually" install TDE on Devuan? I saw the wiki already has a link but it sends to an empty/non-existent page: https://friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php/de … lling5-tde

i was working in provide specific things and tips for devuian in that wiki but one day all the things goes to the garbage.. so i let that shit in that way.. only empty pages..

The beowulf "testing" ISO was unfortunately not possible to get <700MB without losing too much functionality. If you use it, know that you must maintain it yourself, it's probably already outdated!

Thanks to all who helped make to make this possible and in advance to anyone who wants to test it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/exegnulinux/files/

https://youtu.be/VWCAF7LNmtI

the only other current debian + trinity efforts I'm aware of

haven't booted it, but I just read that "SparkyLinux LXDE: minimalISO version" includes trinity desktop.
ok, happy new year

"added new desktops to MinimalISO and APTus: Lumina, Trinity and PekWM"
http://linux.softpedia.com/progChangelo … 79542.html

I just tried it with a splash that's 640 x 480, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced png, and 800x600 still does not work. (garbled boot text).  That appears to be the same as the grub splash in the exegnu iso. (according to the file command).  I think I need to do some more tests.

Edited to correct "works correctly" to "still does not work."

"vbeinfo" (or is it "videoinfo"?) at grub prompt might give some clue..

640x480 does look quite horrible here (qemu). I posted a "dummy" test iso done with "set gfxmode=auto" (32MB, iso boot stuff but no squashfs). I would be interested to know if "auto" works in different cases. Any help to test that, thanks in advance.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/exegnu … z/download