Yes, it uses refractainstaller. The desktop icon (and the apps menu) runs a wrapper script that starts either the uefi or non-uefi version of the graphical installer. The cli installer is there, too.

Any changes in sofware or configuration of the system get copied to the hard drive.  I would anticipate some potential problems around the fact that the destop was installed with metapackages, so removal of a single package could result in a slash and burn of the desktop, including the graphical installer. That's not as bad as it sounds - since it's a live system, you can just reboot and try it again. Also, you need to have enough RAM to update the package cache and the installed packages.

edbarx' post was a solution to a problem with the beta installer. That problem has been fixed. The devuan installation disks will now detect your wireless hardware and provide the correct firmware. The regular install does this automatically, and the expert install asks if you want the non-free firmware or not. The live images have the firmware pre-installed and provide a script to remove all the non-free packages.

Thanks for pointing that out. I thought I enabled the pre-install scripts for simple install. Time zone and locale debconf dialogs should run at the beginning of the installation. They do in expert install, and post-rc2 also has keyboard settings at the same time. The simple install button is going to disappear in a future installer. Simple can be achieved with the expert install by ignoring all the checkboxes and proceeding without changing anything.

The default timezone should be UTC. That's what I get when I boot live media.

You can set the locale at boot, too. Take the second item in the boot menu, press TAB, and backspace to erase the locale code. Then replace it with your own. That runs a hook script that creates a file with the following lines (with your locale code for example.)
/etc/profile.d/zz_locale.sh

export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8

But that won't change the keyboard. When editing the boot command, you could also add

keyboard-layouts=xx

where xx is the lower-case two-letter country code. In your case, I think that would be gb.

Or, on the xfce desktop, and the keyboard layout plugin to the panel, add codes (choose from the list) and use that to switch layouts.

Edit: keyboard-layouts gets a two-letter code.

I just tried it in a live-usb (with a post-rc2 iso) and the off switch works. I got mixed results on the wired connection. Once it connected about a minute after I killed the wireless connection, and on a subsequent reboot, it did not. I've noticed similar when I boot up with the wire unplugged and then plug it in. Sometime the connection will come up on its own, and sometimes I have to start it with 'dhclient eth0'. Maybe this is the buggy behavior I've heard people complain about. I always rely on manually connecting and disconnecting when I use the wireless.

I also tried it in debian, where hitting the 'shut off wifi' button changes it from saying 'connected' to saying 'disconnected'. But that's just what it said - I could not get out to the internet regardless of what it said.

Yes, this is a good place to ask. I don't know lirc, but it should work the same as in debian. That package wasn't altered.

The desktop-live has the same packages as a default desktop install, and the minimal-live has much less (and more, in some ways). Maybe some package is missing and isn't listed as a Depends, but I don't know what that might be.

Upgrading those four packages was probably not the right thing to do. I don't know if that will cause problems or not.

There is no randr package. Sorry. But you can run 'xrandr' on the command line to see your display settings. You should be able to change settings with xrandr, too, but maybe it's not working. Run it with no arguments to get the display name (maybe VGA-1, DVI-something, or maybe it's just called 'default').
Then try

xrandr --output <the display name> --brightness 0.7

and see if it decreases the brightness to 70%.

You might be able to use one of the other methods listed. There's a line for it in the config file. Mine says "adjustment-method=randr". You could try replacing randr with the other methods (vidmode, drm or dummy). That's my best guess. I don't really know anything about it.

1. First. Important: What golinux said. Don't upgrade to ascii, just take what you need and then disable ascii. I can confirm that it runs on jessie. I only tested it on command-line. I didn't set it up to run automatically, and I don't like that it wants my latitude and longitude.

This works:

 2111  redshift -O 3500
 2112  redshift -O 5500

apt-cache policy shows:

  Version table:
redshift-gtk 
    1.11-1 0
         90 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ ascii/main amd64 Packages

gtk-redshift
     1.9.1-4 0
        500 http://us.mirror.devuan.org/merged/ jessie/main amd64 Packages

Wow. It took me five attempts to get it right. Here's a video of manual partitioning (you can get there from non-expert as well as expert install).

Create a boot partition
Create a partition to be used as physical volume for encryption.
Uh... watch the video.

There are a lot of places where I drop the highlight down below the item I'm about to select, and then move up one line and select it. Did that in case it's hard to read in the red highlight.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/refracta/misc … rypt-4.ogv

Wow. The Russian is weird. Are all system messages in Russian? You can change language/locale by running

dpkg-reconfigure locales

But I don't think that will help. That's a grub message. I know there are language files in /boot/grub, but I don't know anything about how they work. Maybe some setting in /boot/grub/grub.cfg or /etc/grub.d/* thinks you want Russian.

I just learned that a big part of your problem with this install is the fact that grub-efi-amd64 is not installed in the iso. That's my error, and it will be fixed. So yes, it will be easier. You'll get a window that has some choices for what to do with grub, and one of them is to let the installer add the bootloader. All you need to do is press one button.

I can believe that encrypted install with the debian-installer failed. It is not intuitive or straightforward, but if you can find the right path through the maze, you will get to the end. Here's a guide. Unfortunately, the pictures are long gone, but the words should help you get the steps in the right order. Also, if you go to forums.debian.net and search for posts about encrypted lvm install, you will find a couple of guides.

http://www.debianuserforums.org/viewtop … b033775ccc

The regular installer isos use the debian installer, so encryption is supported. You can encrypt individual partitions or use lvm to have multiple partitions inside one encrypted volume. For lvm, you can do it manually or let the installer do the partitioning for you.

The devuan-live isos use refractainstaller, which supports encryption of separate root and/or home partitions. It does not support lvm, and it does not support encrypted swap partition, but it can create a swapfile inside the encrypted root partition.

Wow! Great review. Thanks, and welcome to Devuan.