^ Well it's certainly one of my coping mechanisms, along with trolling. How do you manage?

Just tried it on my Chimaera box (Arch and Beowulf in parallel installations): Adding that line to /etc/default/grub does not make any difference on efi installations.

rolfie

I looked up Hyperbola Linux and their website says:
"Due to the Linux kernel rapidly proceeding down an unstable path, we are planning on implementing a completely new OS derived from several BSD implementations."

... and:
"Future versions of Hyperbola will be using HyperbolaBSD which will have the new kernel, userspace and not be ABI compatible with previous versions."

What the!

They give reasons.  That's somewhat concerning as a Linux user!  But is the Linux kernel really heading significantly down that way, or is the Hyperbola site being slightly alarmist??

Since June 1st, 2021 I've been working on LinuC, a website that gives inexperienced users good instructions on how to install a small Linux on their old computer.

LinuC is now at version 0.5 and it is time to introduce it, especially in the forums of the distributions that are available in LinuC.

You can find Devuan among Further!

Please take a look at the description and check out the rest of the page if you have the time and let me know if you are happy with it. Either by email, or in the LinuC forum, or here. I will stop by every now and then :-)

linuc.mipropia.com

greetings
Patrick

sgage wrote:

Not just the 64K of RAM, either. When was the kernel ported to 8-bit 6502 (or 6509 - whatever variant they used)? Never.

No, it wasn't ported, and I'm not really running Beowulf on one, but a unix-like kernel was written in 6502 assembly by the LUnix (Little Unix) project folks between 1993 and 2004. The LUnix home page is still up for anyone wanting to download LUnix and take it for a spin on their favorite Commodore 64 rig: http://lng.sourceforge.net/

golinux wrote:

zapper wrote:

Ah, I didn't know debian EVEN had a release schedule... 

Thought it was like, released when we say its ready.

They don't have a fixed schedule.  They have a "when it's ready" schedule as does Devuan.

zapper wrote:

Good to know, also, I thought chimaera's images were still in alpha...

They are.

zapper wrote:

I probably should, but sometimes I am way too lazy for it...

That being said, I assume you just report issues that you see...? Could do that, beyond that, I don't know.

Confirmation that it works or if not what the problem is would be helpful and appreciated.

Hmm, I don't usually use alphas, on my system...

I usually wait till beta to actually consider using it. 

Unless I have a virtual machine of it, which isn't a bad idea.

I don't know what I will do, given my current focus, which is more or less Hyperbola, but its a thought to consider.

That's really great news and I highly appreciate the efforts and the collaboration that seems to enable running Debian with (at least) sysvinit again - though I have to admit that I didn't try this yet.

Assuming it becomes feasible to use Debian without systemd, I don't think it makes sense to use Devuan just for the mentioned political or "trust" reasons - at least not for me. Actually, by using Devuan you have to trust Debian as well as Devuan is pulling most binary packages from Debian - doesn't it?

If things really turn out for the better in Debian, wouldn't it become more practical to reduce Devuan to "just" a pure Debian-blend with alternative inits preconfigured and systemd-depdendent packages blacklisted?

Please don't get me wrong. I love Devuan and this community. Yet, I wonder if all the effort spent in running and maintaining an own infrastructure could not be better put into the actual work needed for init diversity? With this being said, I have to admit that the wounds from the community split will certainly not heal overnight. But as an end-user who wants to run Debian without systemd, I hope we are getting back on track.

The fix is in compliments of ToZ on the Xfce forum. The hilighting is now semi-transparent as it used to be.  Either resort to self-help with the patch below or wait for the deepsea theme to get repackaged:

Starting line 158 of gtk-widgets,css, add a ".thunar .rubberband" statement:

.rubberband,
.thunar .rubberband,
view rubberband,
rubberband {
	background-color: alpha (@theme_selected_bg_color, 0.35);
	border-color: @theme_selected_bg_color;
	border-style: solid;
	border-width: 1px;
	border-radius: 2px;
}

There were no new packages in chimaera for a couple of days, and now there are. I think it's possible that there really were no new packages. Buster is in freeze, so the changes should be slowing down.