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#201 Re: DIY » KDE 5.18.5 packages available for Devuan » 2020-06-07 18:06:10
these 5.18.5 packages would bring many new features. For example, I am a heavy user of the KDE Okular PDF reader. In the new packages from Norbert's repos, Okular has some new features like writing text onto PDFs.
Thank you for your info. The new features sound very interesting to me. Specially the Okular ones. I'm too a heavy user of it 
#202 Re: Forum Feedback » Why Fie? » 2020-06-07 15:04:15
Be positive: the OP wants to help.
Ageed. My bad. Sorry.
Sometimes I dont find the right wording. In these cases, I should not talk.
Expert pure text install is a blessing for me. It (almost) always works.
I dont expect that everything works out of the box. IMHO is not a problem picking a WiFi spot.
Anyway: I'm sorry.
#203 Re: DIY » KDE 5.18.5 packages available for Devuan » 2020-06-07 10:38:41
I've verified they will install on Devuan Beowulf
Good to know. Thank you. Do you highlight any improvement over Beowulf KDE?
#204 Re: Forum Feedback » Why Fie? » 2020-06-07 10:30:25
seriously cheesed-off.
There are zillions of free OSs. It is all about freedom. Pick the one best fit to you, no problem. But we prefer constructive criticism here.
#205 Re: Installation » Devuan doesn't boot into xfce4 desktop. » 2020-06-06 08:27:00
May be some firmware missing? lspci information could be relevant.
#206 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf 3.0.0 is here! » 2020-06-04 19:16:14
and make for instance a sdcard or hdd with the packages you need besides the iso
It seems a very good idea. When I install a box with Devuan, I keep the downloaded packages on a USB stick. When I install the next box, I copy all the downloaded packages to /var/cache/apt/archives/.
Or make your own local copy of the entire archive.
Indeed. apt-cacher is great when you admin a network of Devuan boxes.
#207 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf 3.0.0 is here! » 2020-06-04 19:09:27
added some parameters to make it a bit speedier for usb
Could you give us any hint (may be in another topic)?. It sound interesting to me. Thanks.
#208 Re: Off-topic » What other distro are you using (besides devuan)? » 2020-06-04 10:57:56
Old boxes still with ancient Debian versions. Rock solid, by the way.
Raspberry with Raspbian. Not happy, of course.
#209 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf 3.0.0 is here! » 2020-06-04 10:54:15
Congratulations. Excelent work. Thanks to the team.
#210 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Beowulf: user login software synaptic and pulseaudio using tor-browser » 2020-06-02 18:23:34
One step at a time ;-))
Agreed! 
#211 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Beowulf: user login software synaptic and pulseaudio using tor-browser » 2020-06-02 11:03:57
But volumicon needs to be started from a terminal with "volumeicon".
Depending on what DE/WM you use, you can also launch it from start programs of your environment. Quite useful when you are already confident that it works for you.
#212 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-05-31 20:58:00
Lets hope it was just me.
You and me: two people
Seriuosly. I'm using Beowulf on a series of boxes and it perform very well in all of them.
Expert install is always my choice and then I use a bunch of bash installers to get to my desired status.
#213 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-05-31 17:19:07
But I did first try the Expert Install. It went well until partitioning. I could only choose between fat, fat32 and ext2
I've been there. It was my fault because I skipped the step of the install secuence. May be your problem too?
#214 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » (Solved) No sound out of headphones » 2020-05-25 06:48:01
no sound to headphones
I dont know about pavucontrol because I dont use pulseaudio, but I could try to use alsamixer to see the level of headphones.
#215 Re: DIY » Lowest memory footprint obtained. » 2020-05-15 19:14:31
lowest memory footprint/usage any of you has been able to obtain with a WM and what was your wm/basic setup.
IMHO it depends on what you consider "basic". I've experience installing general use computers in high school computer labs. We need browsing and office programs at a minimum. My Debian and Devuan installs with KDE take about 4GB of disc and run with just 1 GB. Latest Devuan 3 system require more RAM to be responsive, may be about 2 GB, but this figure is still untested personally.
Hope it helps.
#216 Re: Installation » Beowulf: Link sbin » 2020-05-14 16:45:17
My current preferred method to revert to the old behavior is to add
ALWAYS_SET_PATH yesto /etc/default/su.
There are a few methods. Years ago I decided to change almost all the configuration files of Bash of my systems. Now, with Devuan my modifications work well.
#217 Re: Installation » Beowulf: Link sbin » 2020-05-14 07:12:44
fsmithred wrote:I tried copying .Xauthority and that didn't work for me in beowulf. Are you using that in beowulf now?
No, in Beowulf no.
I'm working with Beowulf beta3 for a couple of days. Coping .Xauthority to the root home works for me. I can start X Window programs as root: bare user -> su - -> program. YMMV. Mine is lightdm, webkit2 greeter and KDE without much further tinkering.
#218 Re: Off-topic » Gentoo, Slackware and more » 2020-05-13 16:02:29
I think you mean 8MB, LOL.
My first Linux kernel compilation was on a 486 with 4 MB of RAM. But it succeded and I was amazed.
#219 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-05-11 14:17:51
For beowulf beta3, now available, ...
I did an offline install with the beta3 netinstall iso
Thank you both. Downloading beta3...
It works, minimal install gave me a working system, with network and apt fully operative. Fixed.
#220 Re: News & Announcements » Beowulf Beta is here! » 2020-05-11 10:45:29
I have been working on Beta and Beta2 for a while. Thank you to all you people for your work.
I always use expert install from devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_beta2_amd64_netinstall.iso
Standard XFCE instalation was fine, with the already said glitches about locales and tzdata. Not big deal.
Then I tried KDE install and it was fine: KDE is far more usable on low specs computer with Beowulf than with Stretch. But the instaler put on the drive both KDE and XFCE. This is a bug, IMHO.
Then I went to my real test: from a minimal install going installing just what I want, without metapackages, avoiding possible unwanted packages. I did two tries:
First try was what I already do succesfully with Devuan 2 ASCII: from expert netinstall, not choose any software nor configure apt, and do it after instalation. I could not finish that way because the system installed missed important packages, as the dhcp client.
Second try, from expert netinstall also, I choose configure apt, but not marking any task at all: the installed system had standard XFCE. Another bug, IMHO.
I'm stuck now. Do you have any advice about how to get a very minimal setup workable? It is top priority now for me, as I'm going to install ASAP Beowulf on a work computer for my wife to use her brand new Wacom tablet, so I'm able to work on this as much as needed.
Thanks to all of you.
#221 Re: Installation » Ethernet driver needed for Devuan_jessie 1.0.0_amd64 installation » 2020-04-30 08:15:11
It is new enough that the Devuan_jessie software can't find the ethernet driver.
Is an aceptable option for your setup using a more up to date Devuan version?
#222 Re: Installation » Beowulf Beta Issues » 2020-04-09 18:58:10
That's the way it was invented and had to be used in the olden days of Unix already.
I agree with you. I like customizing my workplace and I override this classic behaviour. Since around 1999, I change all the profile files of Bash so I just need "su" to get evething in place. I love freedom!
#223 Re: Off-topic » Thunderbird needs to be forked » 2020-01-30 21:51:32
Wouldn't an integrated email client be a good thing for LibreOffice?
The grandpa of LibreOffice, StarOffice, had a e-mail client called StarMail. So, it get lost in some version from StarOffice to OpenOffice to LibreOffice.
My mom actually still uses Thunderbird.
I'm using version 2.0. Inherited all my mail from Netscape Mail. No problems so far.
#224 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2020-01-06 09:50:22
first time here ... Dell Mini 9
Welcome to the forum. Nice machine you have!
#225 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Question about XDG menus » 2019-11-07 14:04:59
Looking forward for any answer to this question. I used time ago IceWM, still like it, and thought that is a good idea implement in IceWM the XDG menu structure. When I used IceWM, I edited their menu by hand.
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