I did try it. ISO written directly with DD on a USB stick.

starts perfectly after moving into the RAM and fast, fast, it is best...

a probably complete Deepin scope of applications

I did not find more documentation or user reports.

the first question each one will probably have: can I add applications and remaster somewhat and re use them next start?

as real Devuan fan (as I am) the second question would probably be:

can I do the same with conventional app's from Debian through the repositories from Devuan?

Hi

Star did install Urxvt. It is a good terminal. But the view of the text is very to small (generally: in the terminal as well as in terminal applications like nano, my prefered editor). Second problem is the choice of colors in nano (accentued, of course through the fact that the size of text is to small).
Is there a REALLY easy way to change that how to desinstall this (in my case not operable) application without benefit for me?

(actually, I log into an other console in using CTRL+ALT+F2 the size of those texts as well as the colors in nano are best for me! it would be enough to extend the settings of pure console to consoles in Xwindow! Why complexe if it would be so simple? The problem changing the console is that you can't compare two or 3 texts at the same time!)

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4458

see pls above question.

is a group of hobby "ISO coders" for Devuan available to discuss about that question?

to install it as tested in RAM.

(as SliTaz did use such ways more than 15 y. along ( see pls https://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:uncommoninst ) I assume that it would be possible to proceed analogue with other distributions. Ok with the initrd split like Russian dolls (justCLI, CLI, CLIwithSliTazCLItools, justX, current), SliTaz is going / did go a bit wider as all other distros)

actually only the install ISO's from Chimaera are beta.

are the other one's also coming?

(I would find the "live ISO" 's more useful as installations ISO's if they would contain links or elinks as well as a collection of howto.html's for

- installation through debootstrap,
- installation from an utility to split the CLI screen in two half,
- start from wlan / wifi / internet / networking from CLI
- add or change the shell language
- proposal from everage / wider CLI installation (as links or elinks already present: alsa stuff, nano or vim if not also present (has not to be if it is possible to post install them "live" exact as the user prefers!), sc, didiwiki (is the best smart writting system in links! fatt, italic, underlined are possible, tables also, perhaps pictures in text if using some system graphic extension as it was possible in the past to use the browser arachnea also in linux!), cups (yes cups is working well in CLI!), sc, plot, wordgrinder etc.)
- proposal for minimal graphic extensions / minimal X start for ex. through ratpoison (man pages have to be present in the packages, better more pages with examples of usages)

such html pages are very compact and a set in English is no ballast for such a minimal iso (less ballast as two or more editors or CLI browsers!)

at https://files.devuan.org/devuan_chimaera/ I see no iso for it and as I am divers PC's at home I need a vers. with only 32 bit system.

I did look at the title of that subdivision of the forum trying to find experimentation to make some Devuan a bit different from Debian concept and more some kind of

- build per (fully documented) compilationś way from Scratch
and
- as kind "Devuan live"
- to start completely hosted in the RAM and
- using a files management adequate to add on fly parts of system eventually stored at an other place (usb drives and memories or images from harddisk(s) an CDRW / DVD) and used directly there (or at demand after copying also into the RAM) using for ex. aufs.

This work exists partially.

The first part could be some kind of http://www.buildyourownlinux.com/#title0 (at this project made on the base of LFS and later probably from BLFS! But a (now very) old alternative proposal exists also at SliTaz, old software at http://download.tuxfamily.org/slitaz/iso/1.0/ and old book of  the build from scratch at https://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/scratchbook/).

The three terms of the second part is some kind about the Debian live as it continues to be realized as Debian-Dog offered and supported at the Puppy Linux forum https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=22 (but the ISO management using "caspers" is the better as the one using "live" as it is more flexible: you can install more parallel systems!).

Why?

Different reasons:

- you does not need different partitions for different systems and block so without profit a lot of HD capacity in each partition
- starting out the RAM makes old hardware a lot faster. The corona crisis did show how urgent the need of hardware is not only in poor countries of the planet but also in divers groups of the population of rich countries! it is scandalous to make millions or perhaps billion of existing PC obsolete only for economical optimisation of profit!
- saving sessions is very nice, really. But it is also the reason of intrusion and indiscretion! RAM only powered systems are absolutely discrete and can be comfortable: you burn variables into your ~/  directory including some ~/.mozilla etc. and can use a lot of preset parameters and values including url's of bookmarks etc.

I hate now those usual OS's saving all values the user are not aware about!

over the base proposed at http://www.buildyourownlinux.com/#title0, it would be important to also define some kind of «justX_&_minimal tools and utility» consequent without ballast. my view on it would be:

such (Just-)Essential app's are in my eyes:

    all development tools including for the use of mouse (point and cupy/cut/erase functions) and internet wired / wireless connections incl. minimal but enough securities, and, of course grub with explanation what is the minimal configuration of it as first grub installation but permitting later to add more exigent (concerning grub) other distributions

    X

    ratpoison can be enough (or jwm for those not willing to accept that!)

    sound

    xterm, xli, xcalc, xedit but also nano (it was long years along the uniformed text editor at SliTaz and can be used for text block processing as the stuff of external text files can easily be used at editing time), ranger (eventuell with files "preview"), wordgrinder would be a good add as it can convert text files in pdf, latex file etc.

    links2

or

    seamonkey as browser, email client, irc client, wysiwyg html editor, and address book

    magicpoint as presentations tool

    Xine or analog basic app for video (depending of the graphic base used)

    xsane

    mtpaint as minimal base to shot printscreens and modifiy then

    osmo

with that equipment, you can begin to use daily a linux in graphic mode yet without printing.

    (already named) seamonkey would be with hunspell, cups, tesseract-ocr, gimagereader as well as small fonts (loadable on demand! why to install fonts for the all world!!!), as well as pulseaudio as well as a music editing app (for children! I am astonish don't to find it in some linux installing directly about 10 GO immediately!) a next step just over just-essential!

you now have a presentation of my intention.

I search for experiments trying to build some absolutely minimal linux environment (but with some graphic ability!!!) from Devuan sources

- without use of some system"x" or other "boxes"
- with minimal dev environment
- if possible with integrated dpkg + apt + debootstrap + apt-build

(example of such an old realisation? yes: the 1th stable release of SliTaz until the stage named "justX"!)

are such experiments or going derivatives known?