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#1301 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-27 16:56:19
Thanks for a definition/description of the solstice. I assumed everyone would already know that but maybe I expect too much of humans in 2021 (which is also an arbitrary numerical designation) . . .
#1302 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-26 17:41:28
Very true. In fact the fantasy comes from the solstice...
Yes . . . humans live in a fantasy world. They rarely see things are they are but rather as they imagine them to be. The source of all our suffering . . .
#1303 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dual boot, can't do "update-grub" » 2021-12-25 20:04:10
Sorry for not knowing this, yet.
And Thank you to point that out and get my problem fixed.
The "problem" is not that your installation hit a wall. The problem is not reading the Release Notes BEFORE you start to install.
#1304 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] minimize,maximize buttons gone » 2021-12-25 20:00:41
Do I have to load them externally with the img tag?
Yes.
#1305 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-24 17:47:06
The solstice is the only event worth noting. All the rest is just human fantasy. 
#1306 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] create new partition table on HDD, but not with root as owner » 2021-12-22 21:59:24
Note to nobodyuknow . . . I still struggle and get confused when I try to do what you're trying to do.
#1307 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 21:51:44
I think we could consider (in some way) honouring the name.
That's pretty much the process I went through for ASCII, beowulf and chimaera. Feel free to take over the task. There is a short HOWTO here.
But also note that #806A55 is a nice almost chocolate and nothing to do with green . . .
#1308 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 16:54:19
I like pastel green ...
Interesting that you would say that . . . the original color for jessie was going to be "leafy green" but it got voted down by devuan users.
If anyone is interested in taking on the theming of Daedalus, ping me. 
#1309 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] WiCD and Chimaera » 2021-12-17 15:05:23
@Altoid . . . You might look in chimaera-proposed-updates.
#1310 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".
#1311 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 . . .
#1312 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.
#1313 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?
#1314 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 . . .
#1315 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-20 17:21:19
Typo?
#1316 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.
#1317 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.
#1318 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!
#1319 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".
#1320 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 . . .
#1321 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.
#1322 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.
#1323 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 . . .
#1324 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
#1325 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] change from cdrom to USB flash drive in sources.list » 2021-11-04 22:01:57
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