Well a lot of the stuff I got away with on Vuu-do is no longer possible, that was 7 years ago, and the whole thing is devoid of sooooo much stuff that is mandatory now.

But the thing is, if you just want to manage grub and do some text editing, it won't matter one bit. Everything on it works regardless of it's age. In fact I still run the full version on a couple machines, I just use an imageapp for the browser as it's the only thing that absolutely requires a newer version.

The mini is 347 mb, about 1.1 gigs installed, and after install you can trim it down even more, I put basically every piece of firmware in the repo on it to insure functionality of all hardware, so after install you can delete whatever you aren't using, it's also got some other programs you might not use, so you can easily get it down to less than a gig.

869 packages in it, I could post the list here if the mods don't think it would take up too much space, or e-mail it or I don't know if stuff like pastebin is still around but could do that.

I even updated the OS-prober on it to properly recognize and name Vuu-do and Devuan installs which it didn't do previously, also got rid of old entries that are no longer around.

But as far as building something like it today from the Daedalus repo, not happening, it would be waaaaay bigger. Vuu-do was built entirely on the last gen of Linux in general, pure GTK2, Python2, ALSA, 3.16 kernel, etc.

You should try it OP, it's a liveCD so you can take it for a spin easily enough, and it uses the refracta installer so install is all of about 5 minutes.

/var/lib/apt/lists = description of all available packages

/var/lib/dpkg/status  = description of all the packages currently installed

/var/cache/apt/ = has two binary files, pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin, if you delete these it will restore synaptic to a state where it's only showing installed packages instead of all available when next you open it.

When you update and/or install something new, some of these files will change.

/var/lib/dpkg/status is handy as you can (carefully) alter some things. I deleted a dependency in a program that demanded I install the Gnome icon set even though it truly didn't need them.

Ahh the beauty of Linux, still allowing me to flip the middle finger at Gnome after all these years.

^^The above reply is how I do mine, never had an issue, but all i'm using it for are browsers. Perhaps it's program-specific? Have you tried other appimages?

Just downloaded a nightly and an esr version of Firefox yesterday, and both work fine.

*slaps forehead*

Thanks guys, and especially stargate, I can't remember what search terms I was using that day but they were dumb, your much better search and the results got me a whole lotta great info!

Building a base system now for 'em and should be squashing it by tomorrow to go load, in contact with the state system now working on what's compatible with their system, and working on some grants for future improvements. And working on a basic site for 'em too.

So very soon we should have things up and running much better, community really needed this, so thanks again to ya'll. The new website will most definitely have a note that the Carthage city library is powered by Devuan. ;-)

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^^Vorpal sword.

Well now you've piqued my interest Ralph, what would you consider an Interesting topic of discussion?

Shoes, ships, sealing wax? Cabbages and kings?

That's cool, that's something I can do easily enough.

But that's for being a mirror for distro releases yes? I was talking about being a mirror for the repo, which I imagine is a whole larger kettle of fish.

Well, big question here if anybody can answer, what does it take to become a mirror? Like how much storage do you need, bandwidth/speed, is it within the realm of somebody doing it from a home-based server? I have no data caps on my home service, it runs 300 mbps up and down (though i'm only using 100 as all my machines and router are old with 10/100 NICs). Probably over my pay grade and not enough speed, but i'd give it a go at least.

Alternately I was thinking, it might be a cool thing my ISP could do, they have been amazing and they already do a good bit of community service projects, i'd be happy to approach them and ask about it, seems like something they could do without much effort, and i'd be happy to volunteer to help them with it if I could.

Thought i'd add a quickie tip:

Installed a little earlier, but when opening it gave me a message explaining keyring wasn't unlocked, and wanted a password, had to hit "cancel" to clear it and it popped up again, I canceled again and browser finally opened. But it would do this every time I opened it, found a simple solution on another forum.

Open your menu editor (I use mozo on MATE) and find your properties tab, then edit the opening command with this appended to it:

a space, then

--password-store=basic

That turned it off for me, current Daedalus.

Got it to work today using different mirror:

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus main  

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-updates main 

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-security main 

I would mark it solved, but still doesn't answer my original question.

Same issue here. Worked a couple weeks ago but no joy last two days. Last time I had this issue I used the dev.beard.ly addresses mentioned above by TAP and they worked, then last update they wouldn't work so switched back to default and it worked. Guess i'll try the beardly thing again.

Tried, nope.

South Dakota here, Alliance fiber.