- Kernel 7.0.9 i686
- TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT
- Devuan Ceres

Download:
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … 386.img.xz
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … .xz.sha256

Please note: for the old DXXX ATOM CPUS you must use the "modesetting" driver, otherwise the GPU will crash:

cat > $MNT/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf << XXX
Section "Device"
  Identifier "Intel Graphics"
#  Driver "intel"
  Driver   "modesetting"
  Option "NoAccel" "True"
  Option "DRI" "False"
EndSection
XXX

So dust off those old machines on your shelfs and basements, you can run a decent OS on them

The image is essentially the same as you get when running /root/rpi-installer from the ISO above, but with these changes:

- default language is english
- you can change the localisation and language to german and russian using /root/change-language

Download:
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … -21.img.xz
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … .xz.sha256

Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience

Due to "some" severe security vulerabilities in older kernels I have created and uploaded a maintenance release.

Biggest changes:
- kernel 7.0.7
- linux-vulnerability-mitigation installed and activated
- minor fixes in locales now uses translated manpages etc. by default
- raspberrypi installer /root/rpi-installer included - in case you want ceres + TDE + darkness on your PI.

Download:
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260517.iso
- https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness- … iso.sha256

uid/pwd:
- root / toor
- user / user

Please use this ISO or install "linux-vulnerability-mitigation" on the older ones.

Biggest changes:

- TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT
- Xlibre 25.0.0
- new background images
- kernel 7.0.3
- own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers)

Notes:

- Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected.
- Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: mesa has deprecated gallium-xa. When you run inside an affected guest then xserver-xlibre-video-vmware is automatically downgraded to 13.4.0.1-2
- Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack
- deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960

Download:

- https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20260501.iso
- https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkn … iso.sha256

Some Images:

Thumbnails of all new wallpapers:

Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience

Maintaining testing/unstable is nothing compared to such (yes, by design) nasty surprises.

@samhain, thanks for your contributions, I appreciate what you do and always give your latest ISO a spin.

My approach is the minimalist opposite: Disable 'recommends', install tdebase-trinity and add what you want if/when needed. Wallpapers, games. stuff you will never use or prefer alternatives.. Why install in the first place?

Also, IMO, if unwanted stuff is apt-marked manual it gets difficult to track down and thin down.

Here is my basic, minimal TDE install list to feed apt with (adapt to suit). Other TDE essentials and deps (not all the cruft) are pulled automatically. I use this for the ExeGNU live images and (done usually from bootstrap) 'real' installations. Note, tdm is in the list, nothing else pulls it in.

tdebase-trinity
amarok-trinity
ark-trinity
gwenview-i18n-trinity
gwenview-trinity
k3b-i18n-trinity
k3b-trinity
kaffeine-trinity
kamera-trinity
karm-trinity
kate-plugins-trinity
kcalc-trinity
kcoloredit-trinity
kcron-trinity
kdf-trinity
kdiff3-trinity
kdirstat-trinity
kexi-trinity
kgamma-trinity
kget-trinity
kghostview-trinity
kicker-applets-trinity
kipi-plugins-trinity
kmix-trinity
knemo-trinity
knotes-trinity
konq-plugins-trinity
konversation-trinity
kpdf-trinity
kregexpeditor-trinity
ksnapshot-trinity
ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity
kspread-trinity
ksvg-trinity
ksysguardd-trinity
ktorrent-trinity
kuser-trinity
kword-data-trinity
kword-trinity
network-manager-tde
soundkonverter-trinity
tde-i18n-engb-trinity
tde-i18n-es-trinity
tde-style-qtcurve-trinity
tdeaddons-tdefile-plugins-trinity
tdeartwork-misc-trinity
tdeartwork-style-trinity
tdeartwork-theme-icon-trinity
tdeartwork-theme-window-trinity
tdebase-runtime-data-common-trinity
tdegraphics-tdefile-plugins-trinity
tdeio-locate-trinity
tdemultimedia-tdeio-plugins-trinity
tdepowersave-trinity
tdescreensaver-trinity
tdm-trinity
twin-style-crystal-trinity

To prevent this from happening you can mark all packages that "tde-trinity" depends on as "manually installed", e.g.:

apt-mark manual $(LANG=C aptitude show tde-trinity |grep Depends|sed -e 's#Depends:##' -e 's#([^)]*),##g')

Now removing "klatin-trinity" will remove the meta-package "tde-trinity" and the meta-package "tdeedu-trinity" plus all other things mentioned in "tdeedu-trinity", but the rest of TDE will still be installed. As the meta-packages are there for your convinience it works as intended

@ samhain How does one

and why?

@ RedGreen925 Thanks for the info and a look at your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.sources file.

If using a Devuan install without a desktop already installed, will the TDE login manager be pulled in? Is it better to start with a minimal install such as LXDE and then remove it after TDE gets installed?

The TDM (TDE Display Manager) will be installed no matter the current one on the machine. If already installed different manager then you get the debconf choice to choose the one to login with. Should be no need for anything other than the basic install then installing the software wanted for the TDE and Xlibre if wanted instead of Xorg. With the TDE you get the choice of the tdebase-trinity to install or the tdedesktop-trinity the whole thing I think it is called.

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Devuan_ … structions
https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan/

The .sources files from my testing machine I use for both of them.

root@9600k:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trinity.sources 
# This file trinity.sources adds the settings needed to install the TDE 
# desktop on Devuan Excalibur.

# Trinity R14.1.x Stable Release (not for testing/unstable)

Types: deb
URIs: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/deb/trinity-r14.1.x
Suites: excalibur
Components: main deps 
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/trinity-archive-keyring.gpg
Enabled: yes

# Testing builds if wanted need to enable then disable the stable above

Types: deb
URIs: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity-testing
Suites: excalibur
Components: main deps extra
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/trinity-archive-keyring.gpg
Enabled: no
root@9600k:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xlibre-debian.sources 
# Xlibre built for Devuan
# https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan/

Types: deb
URIs: https://xlibre-debian.github.io/devuan/
Suites: main
Components: stable
Enabled: yes
Architectures: amd64
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/NexusSfan.pgp

BTW, I run testing as my daily gear and I'm happy with it - but YMMV