golinux wrote:

Why not just start from scratch with a fresh install?

Because root and home partitions on same disk... .

It's called "stepping on your own tail"
The two "/" partitions, the /home and swap partitions allow for many more options.
On one, a stable release for all cases, on the other, roling for experiments.
This is from my own experience.

its my topic

Not really. These boards are a community resource so please treat them as such. Thanks.

Ideally each thread should have a clear title describing a single problem. This helps other users who may encounter that same problem and makes it easy to find with the forum's Search feature.

Threads like this with a vague, meaningless title and no clear aim are more or less useless to everybody. Only experienced users should run the development branches, everyone else should run the stable release. "Glitches" are to be expected when running unstable because the whole point is to fix them before they make it to stable.

still on ceres and runit. still can boot, still got network, still got all devices.. (no nvidia sh*t).

and what gives runit compare to sysv?

Not exactly sure about the OS name "daedalus/ceres"

That is taken from /etc/os-release, which is provided by the base-files package. That line always lists either stable or testing/unstable (by names), it never distinguishes between the development branches.

EDIT: one of the reasons for this is that most experienced users of the development branches will have both testing and unstable in their sources (and perhaps even stable as well), with the appropriate pinning.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free

The output of neofetch regarding OS, Kernel and Shell is equal.

Not exactly sure about the OS name "daedalus/ceres".
Packages are tested in ceres, before integrated in daedalus.

(edit: typo)

Worst case is a new installation ... . Anyway.

Probably you want to migrate to daedalus?
It is closer to ceres.

why mean daedalus/ceres for me?

i have only one repo

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged ceres main contrib non-free

freeartist@devuan:~$ neofetch
   ..,,;;;::;,..                   freeartist@devuan 
           `':ddd;:,.              ----------------- 
                 `'dPPd:,.         OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres) x86_64 
                     `:b$$b`.      Host: P31-DS3L 
                        'P$$$d`    Kernel: 6.0.0-5-amd64 
                         .$$$$$`   Uptime: 4 hours, 36 mins 
                         ;$$$$$P   Packages: 3248 (dpkg), 16 (flatpak) 
                      .:P$$$$$$`   Shell: bash 5.2.2 
                  .,:b$$$$$$$;'    Resolution: 1920x1080 
             .,:dP$$$$$$$$b:'      DE: Xfce 4.16 
      .,:;db$$$$$$$$$$Pd'`         WM: Xfwm4 
 ,db$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`             WM Theme: Arc 
:$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`                  Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
 `$$$$$bd:''`                      Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
   `'''`                           Terminal: mc 
                                   CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (4) @ 2.400GHz 
                                   GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 
                                   Memory: 2149MiB / 3927MiB 
freeartist@devuan:~$ 

Why not just start from scratch with a fresh install?

Because root and home partitions on same disk. Home folder use almost 90% of this disk and i have very many installed and compiled software that i do not want to loose or starting installing or compiling from scratch.

Worst case is a new installation ... . Anyway.

Probably you want to migrate to daedalus?
It is closer to ceres.

FWIW, I have zero issues with daedalus - been using it for some time. (I use MATE)

Probably you want to migrate to daedalus?
It is closer to ceres.

Thanks!
I hear that i can do only UPgrade distro, but DOWNgrade can cause many issues

Yes
Sometimes some config files etc are not the same. You can finish with broken system.