Just checked with a live Refracta & my ath9k driver comes in firmware-atheros.

Just in case you haven't noticed - Devuan is on DistroWatch this week.

I think the ath9k is a fairly common chipset.

What I used to do before was just to install Debian nonfree firmware on anything that didn't work out of the box, it only added 14mb.

Whilst I'm back on here, I did notice the default keyboard seemed to be English American, but didn't check to see if it can easily be changed, (setxkb gb), are the other layouts included? (If not, maybe something else to think about.)

@greenjeans - I liked your Mate version, & I don't normally like Desktop Environments, preferring a lightweight window manager.

Just tried crowz-1.0_RC_jwm-x64-2017Apr23.iso & it's still not seeing my wifi.

No wifi 'out of the box' is a killer for me.
(Just checked out Crowz & Star.)

Devuan has a donation area - https://devuan.org/os/donate

This may also be of interest - https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … 3a.en.html

(I just contributed a little bit more as we hit RC 1.0.)

I used to run #! until it was to be no longer supported, went over to AntiX, been there ever since.

I like the Devuan project so have been keeping an eye on Devuan based distros.
I've installed both Refracta & Miyo & taken them for a run, liked what I see, & liking what you are doing here.

Have you thought about using captcha - http://captcha.net/

Oh, I don't know, that just seems to confirm what a waste of space systemd is..........

I've been using AntiX for several years now, they build their system free of systemd from the Debian base.
They have 3 versions, core, base, & full.
Core is the very basics for you to install what you want, but from memory, doesn't do wifi out of the box.
Base, which is my preferred version, gives you a Fluxbox desktop, with Firefox ESR & several useful programs ,out of the box.
Full, gives you a choice of window managers, IceWM by default, & everything you'd expect from a normal distro included.

MX, gives you a full XFCE experience, created by the AntiX developers & Mepis user base.

I used to use Debian, then #! (Crunchbang), before coming to AntiX, which is very stable & has a friendly forum.

AntiX did assess using Devuan as it's base, but stuck with Debian when it could be installed minus systemd.

Devuan is the product of ex Debian developers, who don't want any contamination from systemd, & that is why I'm here.

[MIYO] Nice basic distro that is basically just internet access out of the box, uses Openbox, you get to add the programs that you want.

[Refracta] Good lightweight desktop experience, uses xfce, has tools to create your own personal version. Some might have a problem with wifi as some (supplied) firmware may be needed to be installed before you can connect to the internet.

Edit: Installed Miyo to a pendrive, & Refracta to a laptop.

I'm not sure which one I'm actually using in this instance, if there isn't much difference, then 'uname -a' wouldn't really say much.

I installed 'a' 64 bit system to a pendrive, but have updated it in situ, so whilst I have 2 versions downloaded, one has a modified date of 28 Nov, the other has 11 Dec, so this one I'm using may very well be less than the latest, sorry about that.