VirtualBox is a buggy pile of shite which is slower than QEMU/KVM and the developers have a tendency of covering up and ignoring security issues.

See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … bug=794466

And it relies on blobs.

No, we need to package it up

I've built versions for stable, testing & unstable in various architectures:

https://software.opensuse.org//download … =ycalc-mob

They were built in Debian containers but should be fully compatible with Devuan, probably best to just grab the .deb package and install that — the software is ancient and unlikely to be updated.

EDIT: updated to v1.09.1-2 with added man page

If you want to use a rolling release distribution then install a rolling release distribution. Devuan is not a rolling release distribution — chimera & ceres are development branches, the only release is the stable branch.

But if you want to use the development branches then I would recommend btrfs (or zfs if you don't mind the dirty licence and fiddly installation) combined with full system backups to a different filesystem (I use xfs for that) just in case btrfs breaks.

FWIW I've been using btrfs on the family laptop for several years with no problems at all. It has a completely drained battery and has suffered literally hundreds of hard resets with absolutely no filesystem corruption whatsoever.

Are you using the firefox-esr package from the Devuan repositories? That version is compiled with the --enable-alsa option and so will provide audio without PA.

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set automatically by systemd in Debian buster: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/sy … stemd.html

~/.xsessionrc should work fine but /etc/environment (or a file under /etc/environment.d/) would probably be better.

EDIT: For my Alpine Linux system I use this stanza in ~/.profile:

if test -z "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
   export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/tmp/$(id -u)-runtime-dir"
   if ! test -d "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"; then
      mkdir "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
      chmod 0700 "${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}"
   fi
fi

Make it speak English with

# LC_ALL=C apt-get update

And if you use this instead then it will ask for confirmation then continue with the update:

# apt update

The kernel & headers metapackages need to install new versions of their dependencies so use either

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

or

sudo apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs

Yes, I've just confirmed that — the user must be in the input group if a display manager isn't used.

I've added a note to the OP.

To edit system files with a GUI use the GVFS admin:// backend:

gedit admin:///full/path/to/file

^ That opens the GUI as the normal user and only invokes root privileges to actually save the file.

Erm, no. I'm using Alpine Linux at the moment because I prefer a more minimal system.

I used to run sid (briefly) and any problems were usually fixed pretty quickly by package updates. The problem with testing is the mandatory transition delay from unstable which means that if anything is broken then it can stay broken for a while.

Your problems must be due to changes in testing because neither I nor anybody else in this thread has experienced them with beowulf.

As I mentioned earlier it would probably be best to open a new thread about this so that we can dig into it further, I think the developers may want to add runit-init as an option for future releases so it would help them.

Well you won't find steam in Guix

But really I don't know much about either, I've dabbled with Nix briefly but I haven't tried Guix at all. Sorry.

I don't know about FreeBSD but for OpenBSD you just need to create a partition of type a6 (in fdisk) or a600 (in gdisk) and the installer recognises it and offers to just use that and leave the other partitions alone.

Obligatory XKCD link: https://xkcd.com/349/