It's scary having messages about hashsummismatches, almost enough to make one doubt the security of repositories of smaller distro!

Do not use  bloated music players. Just use sox.

Do not use bash. It is bloated. Just use ash. Or in the worst case use tcsh.

dice wrote:

You might be better off with a server cd set, im not sure about anything that is available as a cd set for testing/chimaera only stable beowulf. Im also not sure about how you would go downloading the source either, you need to understand the underpinnings of what devuan is, that being a fork of debian.

See this link for the server cd instructions. https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan

server (~670 MB): CD1 of a 4 CD set that allows for a complete off-line server/minimal installation. The remaining CDs offer several desktop choices and a limited selection of additional software.

    CD2: Xfce (installable from tasksel) and LXDE.
    CD3: MATE (installable from tasksel) and Openbox window manager.
    CD4: Cinnamon (installable from tasksel) but requires CD2 and CD3 to install.

Yeah, it does, but I still need Bind9, Ngnix, Php, and some server admin tools, as well as all the email server stuff postfix etc. I'd like to build a complete catalog of all the source files I need for the entire build and then who knows, maybe can submit it as a ready made package.

server (~670 MB): CD1 of a 4 CD set that allows for a complete off-line server/minimal installation. The remaining CDs offer several desktop choices and a limited selection of additional software.

    CD2: Xfce (installable from tasksel) and LXDE.
    CD3: MATE (installable from tasksel) and Openbox window manager.
    CD4: Cinnamon (installable from tasksel) but requires CD2 and CD3 to install.

On my hardware:

  1.7 MiB +   2.8 MiB =   4.5 MiB       mpg123

This is a 16GiB machine so Linux grabs all the memory it can for applications. I presume anticapitalista & dice have less memory available.

EDIT: death to MP3! Lossless compression ftw!

Don't use a bloated volume icon on your panel ; just use the volume keys on your keyboard.

Here's what I have in my Openbox rc.xml file; adjust it to the needs of your WM/DE. By the way, this is for alsa-only...

    <keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>amixer set Master 5%+</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>amixer set Master 5%-</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>amixer set Master toggle</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

I have a few. Currently messing around with a 701sd. It's got 1 GB ram and 7.5 GiB ssd but I'm only using half, creating images for use on 700 2G and 4G models.
I have a few eee pc. Which ones are you interested in? I have an x101ch called ek9 who spends all her time compressing the images for me for archiving. There are a few 4G which I use three at a time as audio receiver, player, clock, and digital picture frames.

dice wrote:

they should just stick to the arch way

The ISO boots to a root shell rather than the new installer so the command line method is still available and I can't see this changing in the future.

I quite like the new installer because it uses a Python module to make it easily extensible and it doesn't use ****ing bash. It doesn't support non-UEFI systems (yet) and it defaults to systemd-boot & systemd-networkd but I like those anyway.