First, let me say that I have never used any of the BSDs and know very little about them. Although I disagree with the BSD license which allows entities to take BSD code without contributing any changes back, I have the utmost respect for Theo de Raadt who is largely responsible for a tool I use every day - OpenSSH.

I learned of BSD grep performance issues when I wrote a script on my netbook using grep to process a large data set. When I gave the script to an Apple Mac user, I got a complaint of slow performance. This puzzled me because the Apple Mac had a much more powerful CPU than my netbook. Then I came across a thread similar to this one here and it all made sense.

The only reason I can think of to encourage BSD grep  usage over GNU grep is if you are a cloud operator billing by CPU usage

Be aware that BSD tools are different than GNU. For example, BSD grep is at least 10 times slower than GNU  grep.

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/fre … 19310.html

This is how minidlna on a very low power linux box with a host name of videos shows up when I  press the Source button on my Samsung TV remote control.

Note that when you power up your Samsung TV, you will have to wait a few seconds to allow the TV to connect to your LAN.

This is what I see when I use my Samsung TV remote control to select the server,

Note that minidlna can serve Music and Photos as well as Videos.

This is what I see when I navigate to Videos->...->TV Shows->Babylon 5

This is what I see when I enter Season01.

Now I can play any episode in Season 1.

Note that hardware decoders like TVs do not usually support a variety of codecs. To ensure maximum compatibility, it is best to encode your videos using the  H.264 codec, mp3 for audio and JPEG for photos.

There are other hardware devices that can stream from your minidlna server. For example, some Internet Radios from Sangean and COMO can stream music from your minidlna server.

I personally have the WFR-28 since it is less expensive and takes standard D size rechargeable batteries.

I use Thunderbird apt-get install thunderbird for a graphical e-mail client. Very easy to configure. Great support fro SOCKS proxies. When you send mail it gets sent immediately instead of hanging around in some sent-mail folder.

I use Alpine apt-get install alpine. as a text based e-mail client. Alpine has a very intuitive interface and is easy to use.

As an aside, the University of Washington, the original developers of Pine and IMAP has switched to Gmail as it continues toi transition from an institution focused on higher learning to an institution focused on the bottom line.

Do an ls -l1 /etc/rc* | less -S and see if there is a link to a connman startup script. Note that startup script links begin with the letter S whereas shutdown script links begin with the letter K

Yes, but links beginning with the letter K are shutdown scripts.

My /etc/network/interfaces file for connman looks like this

 This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

Note that  BOTH the contents and the path to your interfaces file are different.

No, you need to include a dash after su whenever you want the sbin directories in you PATH.
su -

No problems for me installing VLC on Beowulf

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free contrib                  
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf main non-free contrib              
                                                                                
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main non-free contrib         
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security main non-free contrib     
                                                                                                          
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main non-free contrib          
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-updates main non-free contrib      

The short answer is that if you do that, you will be unable to do any local LAN-only domain  DNS lookups. Firefox DoH allows a user to easily protect themselves when traveling from DNS poisoning while still allowing for local LAN-only DNS lookups when they return home  with a one time Firefox configuration change. And as a Devuan user, you are fortunate in that your version of Firefox implements DoH correctly  whereas Ubuntu's and Fedora's version of Firefox do not.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610365#c4

It's important to remember that DoH or DNS over TLS does not provide you any tracking protection. Your ISP still knows every site you connect to. In fact, by using, someone else's DNS instead of your ISP's DNS, the only thing you have accomplished is to double the entities that can easily track your Internet activity - your ISP and now your DNS provider as well.

You may object and say with Devuan supporting Bonjour with mDNS (the automatic .local domain), there is no need to run a local DNS for local LAN devices. However, there are still many devices that do not support Bonjour with mDNS.

You may also object that most people do not run a local DNS. You would only be partially correct. Many people are running a DNS server but they don't know it. Many wireless router  manufacturers, including such name brands as TP-Link are running a form of OpenWRT which means they are running dnsmasq which acts as both a DHCP server and a Dynamic DNS server. These routers allow you so select a local domain name in your router configuration. So, if you chose a local domain name of .lan and chose a Devuan box hostname of nosystemd, your router DNS would automatically assign your Devuan box a FQDN of nosystemd.lan. Unfortunately, many do not know that their wireless router has this capability and do not take advantage of it.

Thanks for this link. Although I disagree with the validity of every point except the first one. DoH doesn't actually prevent ISPs user tracking, I provided this link to Firefox since they seem to be confused about what protections DoH provides as well.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610365

My comments follow:

• DoH doesn't actually prevent ISPs user tracking

  • Correct. But that is not the purpose of DoH. DoH strictly provides immunity from DNS spoofing. It's just like criticizing Firefox privacy mode for not preventing ISP tracking.

• DoH bypasses enterprise policies

  • Yes, you will have to do a little more work to block by IP address. Too bad

• DoH weakens cyber-security

  • Translation: DoH makes my spying more difficult

• DoH also bypasses legitimate blocklists, not just censorship

  • This smuggles in the notion that there are legitimate block lists. This is just someone who is disappointed that DoH makes Internet censorship slightly more difficult

• DoH shouldn't be recommended to dissidents

  • Just repeating the first point that DoH does not provide anonymity. This is just like saying that dissidents shouldn't use privacy mode because it doesn't provide anonymity either

• DoH centralizes DNS traffic at a few DoH resolvers

  • DNS traffic is already centralized amongst a few ISP resolvers.

Actually, DNS changing can be better accomplished with the openvpn up and down directives as described here.

Install resolvconf packages using the following command.

apt-get install resolvconf

Add the following lines to each .ovpn file to prevent DNS leakage.

script-security 2
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

The up directive is executed when openvpn starts and forces your Devuan box to use the VPN DNS servers to prevent DNS leakage.

The down directive is executed when you kill openvpn and returns your Devuan box to using the original DNS, in your case 192.168.1.1.

The advantage of using the above method is that if you are mobile and your DNS server IP address changes, the down directive will still correctly return your DNS to the original value. Whereas, your script will incorrectly change the DNS IP address to 192.168.1.1 and you will no longer be able to browse the Internet.