Devuan 4.0

Message reads:

Unable to load applications.
Please verify Internet connectivity.

Is this a sources.list issue?

I have REM'd out the line pointing to the CD as I have done with previous installs for Devuan 3.0 and 3.1.1

Firstly wanted to congratulate the accessibility team who created the possibility of installing for a user with little or no vision. Great job!
LXF has let Devuan down - tried to install off their cover DVD and kept stating invalid media when searching for the DVD installation media.
So I downloaded the iso and it installed great. Greatly impressed with the more human sounding voices now available in Orca (screenreader) and my favourite is Hugo. I used to work in a service that provided modified texts in Braille and Large Print and I have always tried to provide good examples of Free Software being better than other Operating Systems. Devuan 4 clearly offers the best. The only teething issues I have had is that I made the admin password the same as my user and when trying to launch synaptic have had issues saying that it was incorrect (authorisation failure). KDE (Plasma) had to have its menu switched to Application Launcher and I appreciate that you don't set the default menu in KDE but once set to Application launcher, the cursor keys announced the menu entries correctly - the mouse after a couple of attempts, but a user with no vision is reliant on keyboard and has little use for a mouse unless modifier keys allocated to buttons on the mouse. I chose Devuan default DE (=LXQt?), xfce, KDE (Plasma) and Gome flashback. All work great with the screenreader.
I installed it with accessibility options so as to prevent pulse audio being installed as I read in LXF magazine that Pulse Audio interferes with synthesised speech.
I would now like to turn off the Accessibility option completely but not at expense of Pulse rearing its butt ugly head again. On another OS I have been playing with I found an interesting 'solution' to prevent pulse from launching by creating a 'pulse off' folder in /etc and then cuttig and pasting the pulse folder into the 'pulse off' folder. Works for me - just need to remember to block future updates to pulse.

Way to go Devuan team!

I have to download jobs from SharePoint which get downloaded as Zip archives. When I had my earlier iteration on the drive that failed, I had no issues of going to the download location, right-clicking and selecting 'Extract Here' from the context menu. I can no longer do this with the most recent release of Devuan 3. I have to double-click the .zip archive to view contents and then select the object to be extracted. Is this due to new security measures? I can see why that should be just wondered.

Hi,

In this instance I am referring to an Application I purchased this year. pdf Studio Pro 2020 by Qoppa, one of the few pdf editor software that still supports GNU/Linux (the other is Master pdf editor). I went for the Qoppa one based on high scoring reviews on 'alternative to' website. My corrupt file occurred because I had a failing hard drive which I was not aware of at the time. The application uses java and during failing hard drive phase I could not render the partially altered pdf (an Exam paper for a student with low vision). I did some searching and found this useful command line tool,

pdftk

To fix a corrupt file:

pdftk <name of file> output fixed.pdf

i used 'fixed.pdf' as an example as it makes it easier to find.

Next I opened up the fixed.pdf in LibreOffice Draw and exported as fixedA.pdf on which I then open in Okular.

From here I could use the selection tool in Okular for highlighting text to copy to clipboard then drop into place in pdf Studio Pro 2020.

Now as for images I had enhanced using GIMP to delete labels, then enhance in Inkscape, because I now have the fixed.pdf open in LibreOffice draw I can select the modified images only without the labels to copy and paste into pdf Studio Pro 2020 - saved a lot of time of not having to start from scratch!

pdftk is available via Synaptic Package Manager.

When I upgraded this rig, by that I mean the CoolerMaster Case i've had since about 2006, I bought an Asus X-470 Pro Motheboard, and what I though was going to be a an AMD Ryzen processor with cooling fan. The processor arrived and all the other bits but the processor box on one side said "With fan" and on the other side "no fan is in this box"! All i got from the supplier was a £5 refund! So i have foolishly been using the old motherboard's CPU Cooler, an Asus Red Lion Square cooler but recently had a lot of re-starts and warning on CPU error on reboot. So I thought it was time to get something decent. I did not want to risk liquid cooling as have heard quite a few horror stories about leaks. So in the end I purchased a Noctua AH-15 with two 140 mm fans - but sadly could only use the one as the RAM modules are that little bit too high. That aside I was really impressed with the Cooler and the AMD kit which thanks to Boris's Botched Brexit plan took 2 months to arrive from Austria in stead of a week or two so Saturday just gone was spent installing the wondrous beast. Can highly recommend this piece of kit as it is a welcome relief from having to use that annoying, 'spring clip' that has to get 'forcefully' hooked on to the notched retainers attached to the Motherboard.
My gallery of the recent install can be found here:

https://ibb.co/album/RTrYPV