See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle … _privilege — what's the point of running the graphical interface as root if you only need to use elevated priviledges to save the modified file? That's what sudoedit & admin:// do.

Almost every Linux distribution expressly advises against running editor GUIs as root. That's why sudoedit & admin:// exist. The latter is the default for GNOME and can also be used in the file manager so that can be operated without having to run the GUI itself as root.

EDIT: just for the record this works fine in my sway (Wayland) desktop:

doas mousepad /etc/fstab

I didn't think that was supposed to be possible

If you want to run a graphical text editor as root then either use one that takes advantage of the GVFS admin:// backend:

gedit admin:///full/path/to/file

Or stick with sudo:

SUDO_EDITOR=geany sudoedit /path/to/file

Set $SUDO_EDITOR in /etc/environment to make it permanent then just use plain sudoedit.

Running the entire GUI editor as root is simply ridiculous. Don't do it.

Sorry to ask but you did replace username with the actual username, right?

That syntax works for me with the Debian doas package provided the actual username is supplied.

Pipewire is absolutely needed for video conferencing, at least in my system. Pure ALSA simply cannot do it.

Don't bother with that one, it's ancient and obsolete.

I think I still have the live-build configuration and website squirrelled away somewhere so I'll look at re-hosting it at Sourcehut. Prices depending, obviously.

Sorry for the OT, OP.

EDIT: just remembered the sharp-configs package:

https://software.opensuse.org//download … rp-configs

^ That will "install" SharpBang to a bare system (ie, console only, no desktop, "standard system utilities" only from tasksel).

Then either create a new user from scratch (which should then inherit the desktop configurations) or run this command if the user was created before installing the sharp-configs package:

sharp-user-setup --firstrun

I don't think it will work with Devuan because of NetworkManager but I might be wrong.

No, it wasn't. I remember that thread well.

Philip decided to rage quit because he wasn't able to earn enough money from #! to live off it. He forbade the community from using the name if they continued the project (which they did) but curiously did not mind at all when the "#!++" developer (who wasn't an active member of the community) did just that.

Several #! "forks" (for want of a better word) do exist and are maintained. Unfortunately Openbox is GTK2 based and GTK2 went EOL some time ago but some people like obsolete software, apparently.

No.

That recommendation stems from a time when disk size was measured in MiB. The restriction makes no sense in a modern system.

http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busy … 74114.html

Please post

ls -l /usr/bin/python

A bit more universal:

x-terminal-emulator -e 'sudo apt upgrade'

The x-terminal-emulator alternative should point to the default emulator, which will be xfce4-terminal in an Xfce system. Using the alternative allows the command to work for all desktops regardless of the specific terminal emulator in use.

Don't use pkgmaster.devuan.org, that's the main mirror.

The URL given on the page to which I linked should be optimal for everybody all around the world. That's why it's the only URL listed.

Just use the round-robin redirector, as suggested on the Devuan site.

https://www.devuan.org/os/packages