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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Why Devuan have no Lomiri DE in repos? » 2026-04-18 19:10:02

Lomiri packages are banned because they depend on systemd.

Thanks, but as i know, GOME same dependence from systemd but available at Devuan?
I am tied Ubuntu Unity, and can say its works fast at old c2d q6600 + 4gb ram.

#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Why Devuan have no Lomiri DE in repos? » 2026-04-11 12:25:41

Check https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt

There are several mentions of "lomiri"  listed there. Sorry . . . you'll have to decipher it yourself. smile

Thank you, but why it banned at Devuan, due systemd bundled those packages?

#5 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-04-10 15:49:18

@brocashelm
Thanks a lot man, time now works correctly smile

root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'Europe/Kyiv'
Local time is now:      Fri Apr 10 18:47:19 EEST 2026.
Universal Time is now:  Fri Apr 10 15:47:19 UTC 2026.

root@devuan:/home/freeartist-devuan# 

#6 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-04-10 01:28:03

ntpsec not sync time correctly at Ceres
ntp.png
ntp2.png

#7 Re: Off-topic » Favorite Games » 2026-02-18 20:09:32

@steve_v
Thanks you man for yours useful replays. And sorry me for my late replays. In my country now war and i have many problems such as electricity, mental state and also dificults with language barrier, i am not native English speaker.

How you find time for Gentoo and impressive playing experience? smile

Aren't really comparable. Stellaris is just a 4X, but it's a very good and very deep 4X, and I like SciFi settings. The DLC-gouging gets a bit much though.

and what you can say about Galactic Civilization 4 and Endless Space 2?

Starsector is something else, and there's not really anything else like it. Take old-school Star Control top-down combat, add deep ship customisation and fleet mechanics, throw it in a trading/exploration RPG-lite overworld, and you have... Genius. Or Mount & Blade in space, as you prefer.

why not MoO2?

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-15 14:57:30

where is my last posts here about games?
topic was cleaned?

#9 Re: Off-topic » Favorite Games » 2026-02-09 22:07:52

Currently, modded war crime simulator Rimworld, X3, Starsector, and most recently (still undecided) Space Engineers.
In all-time hours-played (and maybe in order): KSP, X3, Rimworld, Stellaris, Grim Dawn, Quake (1), Doom (1), Morrowind, Eve Online, X4.

good taste smile

You?

huh, its long story smile
my gaming hobby started at 1993(ZX Spectrum) and 1997(PC based at 5x86(amd cpu) + S3 trio64v2(with no 3d acceleration))
Here four game studios that made an impression on me:
-Westwood (C&C series)
-Bullfrog (Dungeon Keeper)
-Blizzard (Diablo 1, WarCraft 2)
-NewWorldComputing (Heroes of Might and Magic 2,3,4)
at most of all i played RTS + AFPS(Quake, Unreal),
but now tired from fast and violent games and decide switch to something peaceful and calm like popular games from yours list,
and want to ask you what exactly you find for yourself at
-Rimworld
-Starsector, Stellaris
-Grim Dawn
-Eve Online, X4, X3
-Space Engineers
from among from others games of - sci-fi colony sim, 4X, modern ARPG, space ship simulation, sandbox engineering?

#10 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-09 21:35:00

CHANGE TIME/DATE on your Linux Computer:

sudo date -s "2026-12-25 14:30:00"
This will change your date and time to 25th December 2026 2:30 pm.  Adjust accordingly to your needs.

Of course it is a good idea to make sure your bios time (F2 key or similar at boot) and date are correct first.

thanks for yours two cents man smile
i wanted that time set automatically, as i understood any ntp client does that

#11 Off-topic » Favorite Games » 2026-02-07 12:47:08

deepforest
Replies: 8

Sure, when I have time. Mostly stuff a few years old though.

And what yours favorite games genres/series/titles? smile

#12 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-06 15:41:49

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT [Discrete]

and one yet question,
why radeon? because open source drivers is better for radeons than nvidia? or because Linus not love nvidia politics?
are play games? RX 6700 XT is good for modern gaming.

#13 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-05 02:49:38

Why, is there something more interesting happening here? Golinux gets to rant on about the follies of youth and the doom of humanity in random threads, this diversion is at least technical and GNU/Linux related.
deepforest asked questions, I answered. That's all.

Thanks you for very interesting conversation man! smile

ps about Gentoo, may be i am wrong, but all strong sides of Gentoo equalize by time for detailed tuning and compilation especially at not powerfull computers?

#14 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-03 15:20:56

Because Gentoo is awesome. If you want your OS to be your OS, there's no substitute. Think of it less as a distro, and more a collection of tools to build your own distro.

Can you give practical example of that? Case where's Gentoo have superiority over others binary distros?
Why at main desktop pc you use Intel cpu but not Ryzen?
Why Gentoo have no installer like Debian/Devuan, intallation at Gentoo handbook looks very complex for me smile

#15 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-02 20:17:52

steve_v you are tru geek! smile

2: I compile software on it, and why not. More RAM more better.

Because Gentoo is awesome. If you want your OS to be your OS, there's no substitute. Think of it less as a distro, and more a collection of tools to build your own distro.

Understood now for what you need so many ram.
But Gentoo is source based and if i am right understand most part software needs compilation, and for fast compilation needs fast CPU and lot of ram?

The first is a storage(~64TB)

Huge! Its all hdd? What brand of manufactur of hdd are you prefer?

after Slackware

why you stop use it?

ps yours IT knowledge related with your job or IT is your hobby? smile

#16 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-02 05:31:49

Well the gist does link directly to an "updated" version, with "thanks this works" posts as recent as 3 weeks ago...

Thanks, i will try again

OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) x86_64
OS: Gentoo Linux x86_64

Hmm, very good machines! smile
This is PC desktops?
Why are you use so many ram?
How are you use yours PCs, job, entertainment?
Why Gentoo?

GPU: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200eW WPCM450

Wow, so old relic, respect! But why? Cuz Matrox gives the best 2d picture? Are you use it at CRT display?

ps sorry for many questions, just curious:)

#17 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-02 05:24:18

Why not use windows though?

already, i am use both, linux and windows, i am take all best things from two worlds wink

#18 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-01 12:16:16

Generic backporting instructions are here, and the source package you will want to build from is here.

Thanks, but i have no enough skill level for so red-eyed solutions, i prefer ready for use solutions.

Also, somebody has already done the "instructions" thing, and it took all of 10 seconds to find on the 'net

I am tried that, before its worked, now its outdated,
not all packages download at this stage

Download the driver in 'Build/nvidia340'.

apt source nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver

Download the nvidia-settings in 'Build/nvidia-settings'.

apt source nvidia-settings-legacy-340xx

I don't have any nvidia hardware to test with so any "100%" would be meaningless

and what harware are you use, just curious as nerd to nerd?

ps

"Hard" is relative to ones experience. If you never try, you won't gain any of that and it will remain "hard" indefinitely.

Thanks,
its philosophical question "be, or not to be" smile
for me some times very hard is even to "try"
because Linux for me requires a lot of more life energy for the routine maintenance of its infrastructure than Windows
some times its curious like solve puzzles, but some times it like "fight with hords of hellish demons" smile

#19 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-02-01 01:04:00

So why not backport the package, rather than switching release?
I swear I will never understand why people switch releases, or even change distros entirely, all to avoid compiling something.

1. its very hard way, and i can stay with broken os after such experiments
2. can you give me 100% working instructions for your suggestion?

#20 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-31 00:09:47

First word says ceres.
What else would you run as a beginner ... stable is boring!

yes and no
i use Ceres because Debian several years ago drop support nvidia-340 driver at stable but still leave it only at sid

By reading the documentation, instead of "working at Windows"

why for working at Windows i do not need read documentation,
because all works out from the box,
working at Windows much simpler than at Linux,
that boring, and time to time i use Linux as puzzle game for brainfucking smile

#21 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-30 13:43:23

Really the only thing that needs installing is ntpsec, it has the daemon and everything else needed, it pre-configures to using debian's ntp. Never had to do any configging to it, just installed it and it worked, still does.

because its f**ng gnome-tool at Devuan leads to misunderstanding for casual users,
logic > if i cant set up time via gui > how i can know that i need install ntp daemon that bypassing gui tool and its will set correctly time, if previously i set time manually via gnome-tool because it say that ntp NOT installed!?

#22 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-30 13:38:57

Why. Does. Nobody. Read. The. Manual.

They all "know how its supposed to work".

RTFM. NTP is as old as time, nothing of significance has changed.

Ok, why at all Devuan devs implement third-party tool for admin time if as you said so "simple"... go deeper... why at all we need GUI and DE!?
That why Linux still not ready for desktop usage and never will at near future, here never nothing works "out of the box" like working at Windows wink

#23 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-29 09:34:01

The clock will be synchronized automatically as soon as you install an NTP client, and Xfce Clock applet will display the correct time.
There's simply no GUI to enable NTP under Xfce, but it's not really even necessary, as people here pointed out.

Thanks, that what i want to hear smile

Because nobody has volunteered to fix it yet?

If it's the default GUI time configuration "tool" (which, AFAICT it is not), then it should work with the default ntp daemon.
If it's just a GUI tool among several options... The same applies as with any other software in the distro - there's a lot of stuff available, and it's up to the user to decide which they want to use and check compatibility of their selections.

NTP isn't broken, your chosen optional GUI frontend is. Fix it, report it to the relevant bugtracker(s), or use something else.
You could of course just configure your NTP daemon using it's own mechanisims (and have been up and running days ago), rather than insisting on this ancient unmaintained GNOME castoff GUI silliness.
NTP will keep your clock in sync, GUI or not. How often do you really need to change timezone anyway, and why do you need a control panel for a one-line config change?

Why at all use unmaintained third-party tool if ntp working good whithout it?
Check at Artix(openrc), xfce clock has no gnome-tool for admin time and chrony working good for synchronisation time there.

#24 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-28 20:36:12

so current no variants for automatic synchronization xfce clock to ntp?

#25 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] how start ntp? » 2026-01-28 05:08:35

gnome-system-tools is broken, no maintainer any more.

and why if this tool unmaintained and have bugs, why Debian and Devuan still use it as time tool?
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=81938#p81938

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