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#2 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Thanks! from the Peppermint Team » 2023-10-07 11:12:03

That will work.... Thanks!
Very cool!
No need to mention calamares since both installers are used depending on the ISO downloaded...... :-)

#3 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Thanks! from the Peppermint Team » 2023-10-05 15:21:44

You guys can make that decision... we are okay with anything....
I personally like to make sure I get over here to say thank you!.
Because not only for the base but the kindness, and helpfulness of the community here.

Feel free to list us if you want easy day.

#4 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Thanks! from the Peppermint Team » 2023-10-05 05:10:09

Nothing too crazy. this time we adjusted Calamares to let the user select the init they want to use.
A mini (140-180mb) series of ISOs using the debian net installer.
Added a few desktops the community wanted to support.

Later to early next year we are releasing configured server  builds... looking forward to that.

#5 Devuan Derivatives » Thanks! from the Peppermint Team » 2023-10-02 15:01:51

grafiksinc
Replies: 8

Wanted to drop a message in this forum to say thanks! to the Devuan team and community, the solid work you guys do really makes things smooth down stream..
We released  our most recent desktop Devuan build Oct 1everything was smooth....

#6 Re: Off-topic » Got another troll prank! » 2023-04-11 14:58:03

I think it depends....Peppermint has changed a lot over the last year, The Devuan base to me runs much better than the Debian spin. I think the largest beef folks have with it is that it ships with nothing other than xfce some utils and firmware/drivers...No web browser, no office etc....

#7 Re: ARM Builds » PeppermintOS Devuan arm64 possible testing. » 2023-01-26 11:51:29

Yes I will post the link here...thanks so much for helping

berni51 wrote:

Thank you. Is it possible to show me a download link here, as I am not active in Matrix.

Berni

#8 ARM Builds » PeppermintOS Devuan arm64 possible testing. » 2023-01-20 12:27:39

grafiksinc
Replies: 11

Hello forum from Peppermint OS world,

It has been a minute since I have posted over here. Since we released our Devuan spins we have gotten so much positive feedback, particularity in the realm of speed and choice options.
Much love to Devuan and it's community for what you do. I personally use all the Pep Devuan spins as I am not a real big sysd fan LOL

This just keeps getting more fun.... While we were prepping for bookworm and daedalus this year, MrReplicant contacted us, about a Devuan arm64 spin.   

With his help this has resulted in some, ISOs being compiled and tested. Very interesting to say the least...  to see a peppermint look and feel on that.
I have tested them in a qemu, runs no problem

But MrReplicant suggested possibly posting here to see if anyone in this community would be interested in testing the Pep Devuan arm64 spin  if you have the hardware available.

If you are let me know I will make sure to post the testing links here

Thank you! All for what  you do.

#9 Re: Off-topic » Video - SwitchedToLinux - Peppermint Devuan - Removing systemd » 2022-09-01 11:22:44

A lot of folks in our Peppermint community have given a lot of praise and props to Devuan and what  you guys do.
It has given us the opportunity to really explain systemd and the importance  of choice
It is  really surprising to see  how many of our  community members that change to the Devuan base, after they learn about  systemd and then they go further and share thier expirence.

To many it is really surprisiing just how much stuff systemd touches...

All in all thank you and  great work!

#10 Re: Devuan » Debian Point Release Question (Solved) » 2022-08-27 10:52:49

Thank you guys makes sense... and does answer my question...

#11 Devuan » Debian Point Release Question (Solved) » 2022-08-27 04:20:02

grafiksinc
Replies: 3

Hello Forum....
Just a general question.....if Debian Releases a point release.
About how long does it take for that to make its way in to Devuan.... if at all..
Just curious....

Thank you ! In advance

#12 Re: Devuan Derivatives » We are making progress » 2022-07-15 12:53:41

Hello all....I wanted to swing by here, again to say a big thank you to  the Devuan team and the great community you have here. Those of you who gave feedback for the testing of the 32bit we cannot say thank you enough, The 64bit has been working well, most of the feedback we got  from the 32bit we applied to the 64bit they are so similar, we have not seen any eye popping issues in our testing... .

Thank you for letting us water mark your logo just a bit, with ours here at PeppermintOS.
I also wanted to let you know in the course of the next 2 weeks we will be dropping the Production release 32 and 64 bit of PeppermintOS(Devuan) we will definitely be throwing  much love your way as we start ramping up the release.   

Again thank you for your kindness and support

#13 Devuan Derivatives » We are making progress » 2022-06-01 13:36:06

grafiksinc
Replies: 12

Hello - Forum,
Every so often I want to update you guys on our progress.
We actually do have nightly builds running for our private testers....
It has been a very smooth port to devuan as well..... we have both a 64 and 32 bit build

Also python w(tkinter), and  golang worked out of the box no issues...very nice...!

Here is a screen of the 32 bit.
aavKZNl.png

We are finalizing the branding for the installers. Thank you so much for letting us tag your logo in our spin. It will be a water mark for slides during the install (calamares). As soon as I get a final I will post a screen here of the installer.

None the less  just sharing and expressing our many thanks!

#14 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Could we use the signature "D" in Devuan » 2022-03-29 12:57:20

fsmithred wrote:

I got a brief answer from Jaromil: "yes why not"

What does the logo for the debian build look like? I tried to find it, but failed. Or maybe the examples I saw were too small.

@fsmithred - this is great news!  Thank you so much! -

Here is blown up version of the watermark
  Kmh1Rf9.png

yeah... we did not put the Debian logo in there... we stuck with the classic peppermintos logo
no particular reason....
honestly I don't think it would fit as nicely as the Devuan "D" does.

I gotta say though.....we wrote a lot of tkinter/python/pyqt with ttkboostrap... code for our distro specific things...
It was a lift and shift Debian to Devuan easy day everything custom we wrote worked no issue at all.. 
Even our Calamares Configs transferred with  very minimum changes needed.

The live-build was the same very minimum changes needed from our Debian to Devuan
We did take a vote and the team decided to go with sysV

Really good work that you guys do....!

#15 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Could we use the signature "D" in Devuan » 2022-03-27 07:56:10

No worries.....We still got tools we are coding in ...... very much appreciated!

#16 Devuan Derivatives » Could we use the signature "D" in Devuan » 2022-03-26 12:56:02

grafiksinc
Replies: 9

Hello all..! And Devuan Team
Over at Peppermint OS we are getting ready to ship two ISO's 64bit and 32bit (Currently in testing phase)
And.....for the Calamares installer we would like to use a branding that includes the signature Devuan "D" for our slide backgrounds.
That would look something like this:

8MA5SQK.png

Is that something  we could get permission to do?

We have not implemented the  above image, but the goal is.... we would like to distinguish the Debian builds from the Devuan builds, and we would like to show support for Devuan where possible 

If anyone is interested in what we are doing please visit our current code base is here:
https://codeberg.org/Peppermint_OS

And have a look at the two devuan repos.

Really appreciate your guys support. I personally have had  many conversations with  you all here in the forums....
Since picking up PeppermintOS after Mark Greaves (Previous Lead dev) passed a few years back.
These discussions have helped the team map a new road for PeppermintOS for the future..

#17 Re: Devuan Derivatives » SDK or (Debian) Live-build » 2021-05-04 07:33:32

Ozi wrote:

Yes I have live-build working for Devuan. I haven't made new Devuan packages for it. I have only made a few changes to the way the installer script works. The live-build maintainer has made the naming convention consistent across all scripts.

I'm happy to send you the setup script!

@Ozi - That would be perfect. - Thank you so much.

#18 Devuan Derivatives » SDK or (Debian) Live-build » 2021-05-02 13:25:29

grafiksinc
Replies: 4

Hello forum,
Hope you are all doing well,
Over at PeppermintOS we are re-basing on Debian and Devuan
With Devuan we will go with runit as the init system.

Our Debian build is reaching completion pretty soon we are starting to look at the tools needed for Devuan.
Now.... on  Debian we used the live-build tools to do what we do.....

I notice that you guys have this SDK:
https://www.devuan.org/os/distro-kit

That kinda got me wondering:
1. Should we use the SDK
or
2. Can we use the live-build tools with Devuan?

I figure I would ask  before we spent too much time down either road..

Thank  you all very much for your time,

#19 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Refracta-SnapShot - EFI Questions - Solved » 2021-01-11 11:29:20

That was it..... solved the problem....thank you very much

#20 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Refracta-SnapShot - EFI Questions - Solved » 2021-01-10 13:41:07

fsmithred wrote:

If you chose force_efi, then I assume your host system boots in legacy bios mode. Make sure both grub-pc.bin and grub-efi-amd64.bin installed. And you'll need to have a copy of the not-installed grub package in the root of the system (or somewhere else if you specify the location in the config file.)

I like to install grub-efi-amd64 in the system and put the grub-pc  deb package in the root, so it's available during installation on bios sytems. It works the opposite way, too, but if grub-efi is the one that's installed, then you will also have efibootmgr in the live system. That will make life easier if you boot on a uefi system.

dpkg -l |grep grub

Check to make sure there are two partitions in the iso.
fdisk -l <snapshot.iso>

The place I am building is in a VM using virtualbox hmmmm.....okay... make sense what you are saying.... thanks for the tip...

#21 Hardware & System Configuration » Refracta-SnapShot - EFI Questions - Solved » 2021-01-10 12:05:03

grafiksinc
Replies: 3

Hi forum - So far so good, SnapShot has been working great... but I do have one thing I been dealing with.

Base OS - Debian Bullseye
I make all my changes good to go smile
In the  config I have this set:
make_efi="yes"
force_efi="yes"

But.....I cant get it to boot UEFI ---- basically the system does not provide the UEFI option with my ISO

Here is a testing scenario I have:

Hardware:
MB - ASROCK B450M Pro 4, Processor- Ryzen 3 Third Gen

Now If I take vanilla  debian and burn its ISO to a USB.....I get the UEFI option and it boots to the live session
This proves that the Hardware has no issues

But....If I take my ISO I created with RefractaSnapshot and burn it to a USB .....I do not get the UEFI option.

Let me add:
The EFI files are in the ISO, and looking at the logs i don't see any errors concerning  EFI creation.

Is there a step i am missing?

I really appreciate the help in advance.

#22 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Init question » 2021-01-05 23:02:32

Perfect!.....Thanks for the info. have a good safe 2021!

#23 Devuan Derivatives » Init question » 2021-01-05 05:47:41

grafiksinc
Replies: 4

Hello forum, I have a question for you all...... forgive me if this seems a bit simplistic, but our distribution, I develop for is in the process of using Devuan as a base, between sysvinit  and openrc could you guys expand on the differences or pros and cons of each.... I have read up on  them but I wanted to see what this community thought. We are still at the cross roads as to which init to use at the moment.

Thank you in advance for any thought or comments/

#24 Re: Off-topic » Refracta-SnapShot - Question » 2020-09-18 12:03:21

Hello guys --- I wanted to update this post just to have closure...
Again thank you so much for advice and support....

Long story short I could not get around the compression problem with Ubuntu....
So, with Ubuntu what we did was take the "Snapshot without" crypt-setup, and then later  I used  a tool called "Cubic" to update the ISO.
https://launchpad.net/cubic
And that was problem solved.

But....I am glad I came here, because the work you guys have done and the  freedom you offer speaks volumes. 
I think a lot of folks just don't understand just how much systemd touches so many things... 

Who knows maybe I can convince my community, and team to be open to a Devuan base wink 
I hear OpenRc may be the init to use though....is that true I am really ignorant on that subject..?

Again.... thank you!

#25 Re: Off-topic » Refracta-SnapShot - Question » 2020-08-22 12:16:29

@HevyDevy and @fsmithred

Here are my results,
**I have not tried the manual method @fsmithred mentioned yet.

I did change the compression in the initramfs.conf to gzip and updated the initramfs no issues there...
Ran Snapshot and it ...came back with the same Decompression error.

Now....for myself I know exactly where the  problem area is in the snapshot script. That is here which is what you guys have already mentioned.

	elif [ "$COMPRESSION" = "cpio archive" ]; then
		echo "Archive is cpio archive..."
		(cpio -i ; zcat | cpio -i) < "$initrd_image"
		exit_code="$?"
		if [ "$exit_code" -ne 0 ] ; then
			(cpio -i ; xzcat | cpio -i) < "$initrd_image"
			exit_code="$?"
			if [ "$exit_code" -ne 0 ] ; then
				echo "Decompression error" && exit 1

Before I try the  manual method I wanted to ask the following:
Ubuntu talks about using unmkinitramfs to extract an  initramfs image.... because they are using lz4
The manpage is here: https://manpages.debian.org/buster/init … .8.en.html
Starting with 20.04...... lz4 is the standard used by Ubuntu to compress an initramfs image.

My question is......is unmkinitramfs the correct tool that I should try to add to the snapshot script?
or.... am I going in the wrong direction

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