Well now you've piqued my interest Ralph, what would you consider an Interesting topic of discussion?

Shoes, ships, sealing wax? Cabbages and kings?

That's cool, that's something I can do easily enough.

But that's for being a mirror for distro releases yes? I was talking about being a mirror for the repo, which I imagine is a whole larger kettle of fish.

Well, big question here if anybody can answer, what does it take to become a mirror? Like how much storage do you need, bandwidth/speed, is it within the realm of somebody doing it from a home-based server? I have no data caps on my home service, it runs 300 mbps up and down (though i'm only using 100 as all my machines and router are old with 10/100 NICs). Probably over my pay grade and not enough speed, but i'd give it a go at least.

Alternately I was thinking, it might be a cool thing my ISP could do, they have been amazing and they already do a good bit of community service projects, i'd be happy to approach them and ask about it, seems like something they could do without much effort, and i'd be happy to volunteer to help them with it if I could.

Thought i'd add a quickie tip:

Installed a little earlier, but when opening it gave me a message explaining keyring wasn't unlocked, and wanted a password, had to hit "cancel" to clear it and it popped up again, I canceled again and browser finally opened. But it would do this every time I opened it, found a simple solution on another forum.

Open your menu editor (I use mozo on MATE) and find your properties tab, then edit the opening command with this appended to it:

a space, then

--password-store=basic

That turned it off for me, current Daedalus.

Got it to work today using different mirror:

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus main  

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-updates main 

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-security main 

I would mark it solved, but still doesn't answer my original question.

Same issue here. Worked a couple weeks ago but no joy last two days. Last time I had this issue I used the dev.beard.ly addresses mentioned above by TAP and they worked, then last update they wouldn't work so switched back to default and it worked. Guess i'll try the beardly thing again.

Tried, nope.

South Dakota here, Alliance fiber.

Oh i'm not ready for a Vuu-do Excalibur, still haven't done one for Daedalus.

What I was thinking, is roll one up like the .iso Devuan has (or did last time I checked last year) that uses Refracta installer instead of going through the installer iso hoopla, quick and easy.

A hybrid-iso you can run live for testing purposes without having to commit to an install, but with the ability to do so if wished. Seems like if it's all for testing purposes that might be better and quicker for people doing the testing?

If I was testing, that's what i'd be willing to do it on, quick live boot, run it through it's paces. As opposed to an hour long ordeal to get it installed which is what I had to do (multiple times mind you) to install my current Devuan, since I wanted MATE and the only hybrid-iso offered was the one with XFCE.

It would be easy to kick out new ones for testing, as I would basically be keeping a rolling current release on the machine, updating when enough new packages rolled in or once a week or whatever. Then squashing a new hybrid and uploading.

Bonus is my new internet has the same fast upload speeds as it does download, so no long time to wait on uploads.

Anyhoo, just a thought, let me know if it would be useful.

Oh it's not dead, just not updated. I actually started work on a new one using Daedalus last winter, but spring came and I had a mountain of stuff to do. It's a lot of work, the original took me at least 6 months or better and that's me working on it for a few hours every night.

Lot's of new issues though that were not present in the first version of Devuan. And kernel bloat and ram usage really wore me out, so I put it on hold, will re-visit when winter hits.

Was actually thinking of doing a MATE version of Devuan first, something like the default version of Devuan, the one that uses Refracta-installer and just installs XFCE as opposed to the ordeal of doing a standard net-install with the Debian installer. As just kind of a community service.

But also possibly doing a Vuu-Do version with MATE, with original artwork and theme and icons etc. Chopped like a madman of course without the niceties you find in an actual distro as per the Vuu-Do way, lol.

I still use Vuu-do quite a bit, 2 of 3 partitions on my laptop are still Vuu-Do, I just use an imageapp to have a newer browser, everything still works on the original just fine, better than fine in fact, it is faster in every way, like lightning quick compared to my Daedalus MATE install. And uses a hella lot less ram, which is good for my old machine.

ETA: I really should run a new copy of Vuu-do, not that anybody is still downloading it, but I found and fixed a couple bugs with some scripts that I wrote, and now my OCD is yelling at me because the ones with the flaws are still up there last I checked, lol.

Beautiful story! I believe all creatures have some level of sentience, even plants, especially ancient trees.

Spiders are a favorite, we have a a bunch living in the house, they take care of gnats and other things like dust mites and such, occasionally one falls into the sink or tub and can't get out, and now they know when I reach my hand out to jump on it because i'm just giving them a lift back to their web.

All the animals and trees in my little environment know me and trust me, wild critters come up and talk to me all the time, usually wanting a treat, but sometimes just to say good morning. Wife calls me Dr. Doolittle at times, lol.

Thanks for sharing Golinux!

Lol, I just remember most of Hamlet from playing him in the high school play a million years ago, Macbeth too, mostly I just like reading Shakespeare because I have never seen somebody other than a German orchestra conductor that could as thoroughly and creatively insult somebody. ;-)

I'm more into non-fiction as an adult, so much to learn out there and so little time. Hadn't heard of Jitsi until you mentioned it, will check it out and maybe make it happen, I vastly prefer to talk to folks in person, kind of an old curmudgeon that way, but i'll try.

FYI i'm back in Central time, we bought a house in South Dakota late last year, it's a fixer-upper so that's why I haven't been online as much.

When winter comes again though i'll need a project to keep me busy, thinking about doing a MATE-specific Devuan spin using Refracta-tools to build and for the installer.

Anyhoo, sorry for getting off-topic, for joke thread I have some memes/jokes I made very much inspired by AP's goofy dad jokes and LOTR,  lol, just gonna post the links up here as i'm not sure posting actual meme images is okay.

https://i.imgflip.com/8urixx.jpg

https://i.imgflip.com/8ureyl.jpg

https://i.imgflip.com/8urhps.jpg

Thanks for that, checked mine and it's 5.4.1 as well.