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#176 Re: News & Announcements » X.Org ------> ex-org? » 2021-01-06 19:40:22
the xorg server is stable, and even if it were to be abandoned is not like there's anything preventing people from forking and continue developing it, remember gnome2, unity greeter, unity DE, etc....
also who knows it, the "death" of x11 could be the birth of x12
#177 Re: Installation » no ext3 and ext4 option for formatting partitions during installation » 2021-01-06 19:08:12
the mirror you used may have a corrupted installer image, did you verify the checksum?
#178 Re: Devuan » Devuan + s6? » 2020-12-29 23:59:20
oh well, necro posting this dead thread but seeing that there is a package for s6 2.7 on beowulf i'm curious if anyone has tried it as even tho runit is good s6 really seems like the logical next step with it being fully compatible with every *nix (at least in theory), i guess porting the services or writing some wrapper/compatibility layer to run service scripts wirtten for sysv or systemd is the biggest roadblock
#179 Re: Installation » wicd broke when I changed unstable from stable, how do I install NM? » 2020-12-23 21:20:10
if you do a netinstall right before you install the init you can chroot into the new system, there you can install network manager, then after reboot if you went for sysvinit you can install runit, after that you can modify sources.list to point to chimaera or ceres, it is better to do a minimal install (no graphical anything) before upgrading to chimaera or ceres
#180 Re: Installation » Base install recent migration from ubuntu some concerns » 2020-12-13 00:17:18
Edit: nevermind i remembered i can just refer to the debian documentation for this but using devuan's suite names
sorry for pestering with noob questions but does this look like a proper /etc/apt/sources.list for upgrading to chimaera?
i opened the file on vim and did :%s/beowulf/chimaera/g<cr>
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb https://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/debian squeeze main
# deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
# chimaera-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free#181 Re: Installation » Base install recent migration from ubuntu some concerns » 2020-12-12 21:23:23
Thanks, the capacity of easily creating your own iso is one of the very reasons i decided to hop onto devuan from all other non-systemd distros, i even considered void linux for a while
#182 Re: Installation » Base install recent migration from ubuntu some concerns » 2020-12-12 20:23:04
Thanks, the posts of the forum have been helpful, when my base install didn't startx after installing the minimal x server setup a post of the forum had the solution, i had to install the firmware package for amd gpu.
#183 Re: Installation » Base install recent migration from ubuntu some concerns » 2020-12-12 20:18:24
Thanks, any suggestion on creating a live iso with refracra snapshot? As in do i give up on runit or upgrade to chimaera with sysvinit, install and config everything there, create the live iso still in sysvinit an move to runit after?
#184 Installation » Base install recent migration from ubuntu some concerns » 2020-12-12 19:06:29
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I just did a netinstall with no DE as i intend to use awesome and DE independient packages, i'm almost done setting the system how i want but i find myself with some concerns:
• i want to change my sources to chimaera as there is software i need that isn't avaible for beowulf, like neovim > 4.3, light, and a more recent version of calcurse (i may end compiling that one myself from source as it not only has inproved caldav support but it reads the config from .config/calcurse by default) which goes to the next point
• i want to install runit but from reading it seems installing runit on chimaera is rather tricky, and installing it on beowulf and then upgrading to chimaera seems safest
• but i want to create a live iso of my install as i intend to buy a new laptop for uni for christmass, so i want some automation of installing my system how i want, however from what i've read so far on the forum installing runit has conflicts with refracta snapshot
in regards to harware i am looking at getting an hp probook 445 G7 with ryzen 4700U, from what i unserstand i only need linux-wlan-ng-firmware and linux >= 5.7 for that to work
All advice is greatly appreciated
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