Early in 2016 there was an https://devuan.org/os/development-kit page.  That page was well indexed in search engines.  But by the time of the Stable release it was obsolete and rather than delete the page, it is now redirected to https://devuan.org/os/development.  Then the development-kit was renamed to distro-kit and a new page with the currect information was written.

Why should there be a link on the index page which focuses on how to get and install Devuan?  It has no place there.  Same holds true for the os page which talks about how an os works.

Not trying to make excuses but . . . even though I worked on the styling of the site, I had little to do with setting up the site structure.  I inherited what was in place when I took over the site early this year,  It is a well-established site so it would be unwise to restructure it at this point.  So we're trying to work around it but at the same time simplify the site structure and remove redundancies.

I don't disagree with that and would have done it differently if I had been in charge when it was locked into place.

Maybe take it to irc?

That's more on the right track but unfortunately bots can usually figure out number questions in milliseconds (at least it feels that way).  Only one bot has gotten through the current system in over 6 months so it works quite well.  And IMO it's less annoying than those picture captchas that you have to cycle through.  And politics is a no-go . . .

I'll leave the technical details to you but I do know that is not the right slim panel.  You can download the latest version of the slim theme here.   Note the lighter bg color of the input box, different 'login' font and the addition of an F1 message.  Username name prompt (and others) appear in #dad9dc over the input box with this theme.  You might want to consider the session info placement in relation to the F1 message on the panel too:

Yeah, it's BIG . . .

Does an old cranky one count?

Amprolla does all that.

Here's the first version: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/amprolla

And here's the current one: https://github.com/parazyd/amprolla

Please log your observations here.  I have a few things from dmo installed but that was from nearly two years ago and things change . . .

Will the input layout be the same as currently?  I hope it will be for continuity.   At a minimum please keep to the minimal swoosh and logo or just a solid purpy BG.   (Sorry you'll have to imagine the butterflies and planets . . .)

Note that F11 at slim login screen takes a screenshot with scrot and puts it in /root/slim.png.  Thanks to fsr for figuring that out.  Should make things easy for you.

@miroR . . . just a quick note as it is very late.

The FiraSans font was dropped last year.  I never liked it because it was 'unreliable' and the spacing was strange.  But I do believe that the logo was created by reorienting FiraSans characters.  The fonts currently used on the site are OpenSans and SourceCodePro. You can see the source here.

https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/d … /css/fonts

*edit* As to fonts on this forum . . . they could probably use some revision.

Let's Encrypt is free so no shillings needed.  But none of us here have the ability to fix the problem.  It has been reported on the ML and irc so hopefully some one will wake up . . .

Welcome to the forum BTW. 

My foggy memory tells me that dev/sdxx is the least reliable method of naming drives because adding a usb device can change the numbering and if you're not paying attention, you might write to the wrong partition.  My current fstab uses uuids but all my external drives are labeled as well as all my other installations.  (I've just been too lazy to change over.)   The only uuid that has ever changed for me during an install has been the swap partition afaicr.  Note that I don't mess with my system once it's up and running till the next release.