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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » devuan (fresh install) noticeably slow compared to debian » Yesterday 17:15:12

That N100 is a quite weak CPU. Everything requiring CPU performance will delay the response.

#2 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 19:00:19

Another conspiracy theory about something being bad?

igorzwx wrote:

Could you please read the code and enlighten us?

I am no programmer. Do it yourself.

#3 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 16:46:34

Why not? If you desire have a look at the code. The sources are available.

#4 Re: Freedom Hacks » apt seems to be a sort of "unstable wrapper" » 2025-09-12 15:32:12

apt has a progress bar. Perfect for me, I am using apt since many years now, no complaints about it.

#5 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-11 08:11:35

You must have omitted upgrading for quite a while.

Nevertheless, good luck for a new approach.

#6 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 17:03:16

@RedGreen925 and @delgado:

Have you digested the OP's = the_edge123 input correctly?

the_edge123 wrote:

My sources.list refers to stable.
During the last update, the packages were upgraded but

/etc/devuan_version

still contains daedalus.

We are on Devuan here, not on Debian. Daedalus = Stable, Excalibur = Testing!!! I am sorry, you are both on the wrong track.

@Fabien: I am pretty sure you do not have Excalibur on your PC. You are on Daedalus still. The output is correct.

You may check with a

cat /etc/os-release

When you want to upgrade to Excalibur, make sure your Daedalus is up-to-date. Then run

apt install usrmerge

Then change your sources.list to excalibur.

Some reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/releases

#7 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 11:03:37

Again: You never have upgraded to Excalibur if your sources.list refers to "stable".

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Minor issue after upgrading to excalibur » 2025-09-10 06:25:43

My sources.list refers to stable.

For Devuan stable still is Daedalus. If you want to upgrade to Excalibur, change your sources.list to excalibur instead of stable.

#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] No automount after update to Excalibur » 2025-09-07 17:08:11

... you did install usrmerge before updating ...

There will be some complaints within the upgrade process if that wasn't done.

#11 Re: Other Issues » amd64-microcode update for transient scheduler attacks » 2025-08-31 19:23:31

Is Devuan in process of putting this update into the Daedalus repos?

Definitely not. The Daedalus repo will only be updated if there is an update coming from the Debian repo.
Devuan is Debian w/o systemd, only parts that have relation to systemd are replaced or modified.

Anyhow, if I read the document correctly the main fix is an bios update.

#12 Re: Installation » [Solved] Beowulf - Nvidia legacy 340XX driver will not install. » 2025-08-31 14:07:51

kernel is 4.19.-27

Linux devuan 4.19.0-27-amd64

however there are no correspondent linux-headers available in the repo

I think that is not really true. From:
https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … *&x=submit

linux-headers-4.19.0-27-common - 4.19.316-1
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   amd64
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   i386
http://deb.devuan.org/merged   beowulf-security/main   arm64

They are available, but not in the main section, you have to enable security!

#13 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] excalibur: grub boot menue entry for archlinux disappeared. » 2025-08-28 08:34:00

Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
Found Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) on /dev/nvme0n1p2
Found Arch Linux (rolling) on /dev/nvme0n1p3
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...

This shows that os-prober is executed and finds Arch. And what is normal for any uefi system, adds an entry to access the uefi bios.

You should see Arch in the grub menu as selectable option.

#14 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-08-26 18:14:00

Installed a Daedalus VM, encrypted with LVM, efi based, Lightdm and Cinnamon with German locale and Keyboard. Installation works, Lightdm is set to US keyboard, Cinnamon too. Adding a German keyboard works until reboot, then the system is back to US. Is that worth an issue? I think yes?
Edith: the screensaver login allows to switch the keyboard to German, the login doesn't.

#15 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » kernel (error): disabling IRQ:7 » 2025-08-24 20:04:00

From https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … rrupt-irq7
"Classically, the default usage of IRQ 7 is for the (essentially obsolete) parallel port (also known as IEEE 1284 or LPT)..."

Use the search machine of your least mistrust to find some more info.

#16 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-08-24 09:57:19

Just pulled out my travelling laptop again.

apt update works fine w/o backports. Re-enabling the standard "deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged" backports throws a "Release file not found" error. Starngely enough it works with "deb http://archive.devuan.org/merged".

#17 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan 6 excalibur, OpenRC, networking, /etc/hosts ingnored » 2025-08-13 16:37:46

I have seen something in a German portal that you can configure NM to leave the resolv.conf alone.

#19 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Devuan 6 excalibur, OpenRC, networking, /etc/hosts ingnored » 2025-08-13 08:38:01

NetworkManager shouldn't affect /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts or any of these files, except, unfortunately, the /etc/resolv.conf file.

Please read again, you see the discrepancy?

NetworkManager WILL affect the /etc/resolv.conf and take it out of the loop. Thats why I omit using NetworkManager on my workstation. On my small home network I am using static addressing.

#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » How to lookup printer drivers in CUPS? » 2025-08-06 19:36:28

I am using a Kyocera P6230 LAN printer with a PPD supplied by Kyocera. Before that I owned a FS-5100DN.

#22 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-28 13:05:33

Just updated my laptop which is still running Chimaera for a reason, and I saw that no release file is present for backports anymore.

Why is Chimaera backports removed? Why is Chimaera different from e.g. Beowulf where backports still is present in the archive?

#23 Re: Packaging for Devuan » [SOLVED] chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org » 2025-07-28 12:33:41

Sorry, you seem to have a silly idea how Devuan works. Even if the Debian 11 Bullseye backports is archived in Debian, it does not mean it will be archived in Devuan Chimaera. Though stopping support for Bullseye backports in Debian means that there will be no new packages coming in from Debian any more for that release.

#25 Re: Other Issues » Sync of daedalus-backports <-> bookworm-backports? » 2025-07-25 07:20:50

what about chimaera-backports in archive.devuan.org?

Chimaera isn't yet archived.

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