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#1276 Re: Devuan » As Debian 11 moves closer to Devuan. Is there any reason to stay on De » 2021-12-12 17:36:53
As someone who has worked in a service area supporting students with little of no vision (I retired end of August this year), I can now start arguing for Devuan on other mailing lists.
Thanks for the positive feedback here and on your other thread. But perhaps "advocating" might be more a more effective approach than "arguing". 
#1277 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-05 00:42:06
GlennW . . . the isos at the above link are in the "unstable" directory. IIUC, they are not part of the main distribution offered at files.devuan.org and the mini.iso is even more minimal than the netinstall iso. Maybe have a look and correct me if I'm wrong . . .
#1278 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-04 18:06:27
Devuan claims to be a minimalist base GNU+Linux distribution . . .
That, of course, depends on the definition of "minimalist". That being said, there other Devuan installation media at https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/. I have installed from the mini.iso. I can't remember the details but it was pretty "bare". Anyway, you might poke around there to see if any of those options suit your criterion better.
#1279 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-04 16:02:26
HoaS saves the day! I was not happy to see all those posts disappear. Broken link fixed. Anything else need to be done?
#1280 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Need to reset root password » 2021-11-29 20:48:34
There is a way to do it from the boot screen by editing the kernel line. bluesdog has a howto over on the debian forum that I have used but it may be outdated by now. I would copy some notes that I have here but don't trust their accuracy because I haven't had to do it in years . . .
#1281 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-20 17:21:19
Typo?
#1282 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Problems with a Seagate portable drive » 2021-11-19 01:43:29
Just curious if you ran a SMART test on it.
#1283 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Problems with a Seagate portable drive » 2021-11-16 21:54:40
. . . I don't know what you mean by "the letter assigned to the drive."
A drive is named sda - sdb - sdc etc. sd(x) is the generic rendering of the location that needs to be adjusted to fit the specs of your system. IOW, replace the (x) with the letter appropriate to your needs.
#1284 Re: Other Issues » What does 'merged' means in sources.list ? » 2021-11-15 16:53:56
So if i don't used 'Merged' i lose some packages?
Yes. All the ones coming from Debian directly. That's most of Devuan!
#1285 Re: Devuan Derivatives » [MiyoLinux] New Releases Uploaded » 2021-11-14 17:37:43
Ceres ships with new packages and newer kernel. But keep in mind, however, that Chimera is a testing ground. Also, don't prefer testing if security is a concern.
Chimaera is now our STABLE release. Daedalus is "testing".
#1286 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-11-14 00:20:57
EDIT: god I love shitposting. It's so exhilarating
Always entertaining and you are allowed to do so here . . . 
#1287 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-11-13 18:31:18
@entropyagent . . . Perhaps an attitude adjustment is warranted. Instead of bitching and telling Devuan what to do, you could actually CONTRIBUTE something to Devuan by becoming the official tracker of "no longer supported browsers". Post to DNG and start a thread in News & Announcements and update as necessary. Ball is in your court.
#1288 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-11-13 00:33:48
Plead your case to Debian. Not going to happen at Devuan.
#1289 Re: Other Issues » What does 'merged' means in sources.list ? » 2021-11-12 17:13:32
In my sources.list i have:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera mainI noticed in http://deb.devuan.org/ a merged subdir and
a dists subdir.
Since merged also contains a dists subdir what is it's use?
"merged" pulls in the unchanged packages directly from the Debian repos and merges them with packages that have been forked by Devuan.
Also if http://deb.devuan.org is an 'alias' to http://pkgmaster.devuan.org
why my sources.list contains both?
pkgmaster.devuan.org is the repository that syncs all the package mirrors. It should not be used directly and should be removed from sources.list
deb.devuan.org is the round-robin that chooses a mirror from the mirror pool.
This changed some years ago, maybe during ascii . . .
#1290 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] in-between releases » 2021-11-04 22:59:36
This from https://www.devuan.org/os/packages :
Note that all software shipped with Devuan in the main component is free software. But if needed, non-free software is also available. Just add the non-free and contrib components to the appropriate line(s) in /etc/apt/sources.list like this:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
#1291 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] change from cdrom to USB flash drive in sources.list » 2021-11-04 22:01:57
Or comment it out with #
#1292 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] in-between releases » 2021-11-04 18:05:06
And remember to use "daedalus" the release name for Devuan's current testing not "testing" in your sources.list.
#1293 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-11-02 21:49:57
FWIW, the Firefox snap is provided by Mozilla. The Thunderbird and Chromium snaps are provided by Canonical.
Repeating for truth . . . snapd is a banned package in Devuan.
#1294 Re: Installation » How to have updated firefox-esr in Chimaera? » 2021-11-02 20:03:18
epp wrote:Why not add the
snapdpackage to the Devuan repository and let the users decide?
Because it's already available to Devuan users via amprolla.
No it is not. It is a banned package.
#1295 Re: Installation » strange lightdm greeter background » 2021-11-01 19:46:13
desktop-base is a package where the desktop theme is configured. Maybe you have an old configuration somewhere that is conflicting.
#1296 Re: Installation » strange lightdm greeter background » 2021-11-01 16:47:06
I think it is configured in desktop-base as part of the default theme but you should be able to override it.
#1297 Re: Devuan » Devuan, udev, eudev, systemd.udev where are we now ? » 2021-10-28 18:41:01
Reading round it seems that systemd.udev wasn't just appropriated by the systemd team, they also re-worked it and improved it so it performs better and isn't as tightly coupled with systemd as expected so can be used without systemd.
I would never trust that generosity of co-existence coming from LP et al/Red Hat.
It may be that LP, KS & GKH are there to help :-)
Themselves and their "product" for sure. They have never once offered an option of compromise or collaboration.
#1298 Re: Devuan » Devuan, udev, eudev, systemd.udev where are we now ? » 2021-10-28 15:05:45
FYI there is a collaborative project working on eudev including bb|hcb from Devuan and skarnet as well as Alpine devs.
OMG! Lennart and Kay Seivers and GKH are hanging out there too!!
#1299 Re: Devuan » Test Testing version » 2021-10-27 17:46:27
From: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages
Devuan package repositories are exclusive. Other repositories, including Debian, Ubuntu, Mint etc, should NOT be used directly.
Personally, I would never touch anything from the 'buntus.
But your choice and you get to keep all the pieces.
#1300 Re: Devuan » Test Testing version » 2021-10-27 15:24:05
@ndavilam . . . Devuan does not provide an official way to contribute a "PPA". However sometimes users will share their builds on the "Off-topic" section of this forum. For example, in this thread https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3331 tdrnetworks is providing up-to-date php builds without systemd.
But also check the daedalus and ceres repositories. The latest shiny FF might be there.
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