Opps ... I had a typo in the URLs. Download works again, sorry for the inconvenience ...

klepp.cn is hosted by wold4you.com in Austria. You could check for yourself: https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup?query=klepp.cn

Just a heads-up for all devs: TDE 14.2.0 running on a "HP Mini" ATOM 32bit machine.

- 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

Maintenance Release

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.

Sure it is:
- right click on a free space of the panel (just above the CD icon)
- select "Configure Panel ..."
You'll most likely want to reconfigure the clock, too

tde-trinity is TDEs top meta-package. When installing it pulls in the next layer of meta-packages. When you uninstall any package that is referenced somewhere down the dependency tree you'll end up with all depending packages removed. e.g. "tde-trinity" depends on "tdeedu-trinity" depends on "klatin-trinity". klatin-trinity" will remove all the meta-packages that depend on it, including "tde-trinity". As all other TDE packages like "tde-core-trinity" are marked as "automatically installed" they will be removed when the last package depending on them is removed ... so removing "klatin-trinity" will remove the whole of TDE.

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

Well, you can just use regular stable devuan and follow the installation guide for TDE:
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Devuan_ … structions
You find my customisations in /etc/skel - just copy them over to your installation, it'll work.

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

Passwords are the same as in the first post:

user / user
root / toor

Autumn 2025 Version is out!

I just finished uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes:

- TDE 14.2-DEVELOPMENT
- Xlibre instead of Xorg - thanks to @callmetango
- new background images
- kernel 6.16.8
- own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers)

Issues solved:
- EFI installation on blank disk works now
- 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 (I got myself a bigger webspace):
- https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.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

You can run konqueror as root, but you should not. Anyway,

tdesu konqueror

does the job - and your way works probably the best.

I cannot comment on the ntfs issues (don't have anything M$ to test). When you search you'll find that this is a long standing problem with ntfs across distribution - and was apparently never solved.

March 2025 version is out!

What do you get:
- Devuan Testing
- TDE 14.2.0 (dev branch)
- Openscad
- Firefox v135
- Kernel 6.12.17
- most firmware blobs
- dark theme

I have removed Zim Desktop Wiki due to the vast number of dependencies it pulls in.

UID / PWD:
user / user
root / toor

ISO: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20250302.iso
SHA256: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness- … iso.sha256

Note: default language is austrian german. Russian and englisch language packs are installed, too.