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#1851 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Legacy Graphics Problem with Beowulf Upgrade » 2020-04-03 00:40:50

@Altoid . . . thanks for tracking that down.  I have always had great respect for HH and thank him for his contributions and  making that script compatible with Devuan.  You probably noticed that package comes directly from Debian - Origin: Debian.

#1852 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Legacy Graphics Problem with Beowulf Upgrade » 2020-04-02 19:37:31

sgfxi at https://smxi.org/ will automate everything.  DISCLAIMER:  I've been using onboad graphics and nouveau for years but the sgfxi script used to work wonders.

#1853 Re: Installation » [BUG] beowulf beta netinst. ISO does not configure locales or timezone » 2020-04-02 13:34:50

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Apologies if this is the wrong section — I couldn't find a "Bugs" sub-forum and reportbug wants a package name, which doesn't seem appropriate for problems with the ISO image.

Oh, but it is!

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-in … aster/docs

#1854 Re: Installation » Issue with deb.devuan.org? » 2020-04-02 13:30:33

Marjorie wrote:

Onefang, thanks for the excellent clarification.

Sometime I just get a bit paranoid and maybe I should switch to a https mirror.

I used to use the more specific, if still http, gb.deb.devuan.org until that was deprecated and we were recommended to use deb.devuan.org.

Maybe a disclaimer in the documentation about its load-sharing round-robin nature would help.

Documentation covering all those points is (and has been) on the website, in the installer and now also stickied here:

Index
    » Documentation
    » Devuan package mirrors, deb.devuan.org, HTTPS, and mirror monitoring

#1855 Re: Off-topic » Folding@home - You can help find a cure to COVID-19! » 2020-04-01 15:57:42

Considering the monied interests that "own" scientific research (perhaps the Gates Foundation is among them?), the "cure" is going to make a lot of people even richer because the "cure" will undoubtedly be patented.  I'd rather let nature do its thing than participate.  Note that I have never had a flu shot either.

#1857 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-31 00:08:42

dev1fanboy aka chillfan is meticulous in his documentation so I'm sure there is a reason.  You could open an issue at https://git.devuan.org/devuan-doc/docum … dev1fanboy to ask him or send him an email via this forum.  He hasn't been here since early March.  Of course, someone else may know the answer.  Just not me.  tongue

#1859 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-30 15:57:52

aus9 wrote:

Hi
I finally spotted but needed prompting this post
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1925

as my removal of systemd stuff is on the beta iso I thought I would share the little I know here
And I am glad that link is a sticky too.

Happy to hear everything worked out for you.  smile

#1860 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Python3.8 / Testing? » 2020-03-28 22:41:48

Check devuan backports.  Do not install directly from Debian repos.

#1861 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » gnome video app? » 2020-03-27 15:51:49

"Gnome Videos" is not a proper filename in Ubuntu or Debian.  What might it be?  If it is available in Debian we should have it in Devuan unless it is on the banned package list http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt   Have you checked https://pkginfo.devuan.org/ to see if it is there?

#1862 Re: Off-topic » youtube parody of Downfall movie .....Devuan is born » 2020-03-25 23:05:24

It seems outdated 6 years after the fact.  Time to move on, perhaps by actually contributing something useful?

#1863 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-25 18:22:59

Dutch_Master wrote:

Just for my understanding: if one already has Ascii installed, Beowulf is now ready/stable enough to be upgraded to?

Yes. https://beta.devuan.org/os/install#upgr … to-beowulf

#1864 Re: Installation » How is IBM support? » 2020-03-23 20:15:17

We are happy to have made you happy.

#1869 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-16 22:10:06

szutt wrote:

- Note that firefox-esr no longer requires pulseaudio. You can easily
   remove pulseaudio and just use alsa.

What a f****** good news!!!

Unfortunately, Xfce now pulls it in.  I think it's a recommends though so could be removed with a little work.

#1870 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-16 16:13:19

Marjorie wrote:

Just reading the guide on for how to update from ASCII to Beowulf (https://beta.devuan.org/os/documentatio … owulf.html) I note that the text seems to imply that this would work to upgrade from Jessie too.

Yes, it is possible to upgrade from Jessie!  Those pages were just updated yesterday.  I'll be getting that straightened out on the Install page later today.  beta website is still a WIP.  wink

#1871 News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-03-15 16:26:51

golinux
Replies: 241

Dear dev1ers,

The Devuan 3 Beowulf Beta release is now ready for review. The installer isos,
desktop-live and minimal-live isos can be downloaded from:

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/

### What's new in Beowulf

Changes in su
- The behavior of su has changed. Use 'su -' to get root's path or use
   the full path to commands if you use only 'su'. See the following for
   more information:
   https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/ … -variables
   https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=905564

Pulseaudio
- If you have no sound, make sure the following line in
   /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf is commented as
   shown here:

   #autospawn=no

- Note that firefox-esr no longer requires pulseaudio. You can easily
   remove pulseaudio and just use alsa.

Please read the Release Notes for more detailed information:

http://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/ … _notes.txt

Install, upgrade and migrate documentation for beowulf and be accessed at:

https://beta.devuan.org/os/install (still a WIP)

Please report any issues you may experience to this list, bugs.devuan.org,
freenode irc #devuan-dev or the dev1galaxy.org forum.

In solidarity,

The Devuan Devs

#1872 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » SOLVED: Brisk menu (mate-applet-brisk-menu) is not available » 2020-03-09 01:09:24

nobodyuknow wrote:

Thanks for the assistance.

@golinux I assumed that sources.list would be read by Synaptic. I was wrong.

You will want to update synaptic every time you want to browse or install etc. so it can find the newest packages.   You also need to do that in a terminal.

@rolfie So that's the way to specify a repository when installing. And backports makes sense now in the context of packages existing in testing, but not stable.

The -t is only needed because backports has some kind of magic pinning so everything from there doesn't get installed.  I comment backports in my sources list and only uncomment when I want to install something specific.

#1873 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » compile firefox-esr (52) --enable-alsa ? » 2020-03-08 03:59:08

Currently it can be disabled in about:config.  But since I'm still on jessie, it's not a problem for me . . . yet.  Cloudflare is a very-bad-idea (tm).  There is a thread about this on the DNG mail list if you're interested.

#1875 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [Solved ]Mainboard ASUS with AMD Ryzen 3: root device not found » 2020-03-05 07:51:19

That might work if hmj was using grub but according to the post immediately above yours, (s)he is using lilo.

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