I really don't know where to begin with that . . . except that you know so little about Devuan . . .

When Devuan was created over a decade ago, the majority of those involved were team players all pulling in the same direction toward a common goal. If that magic had not happened there would have been no Devuan.

Fast forward to 2026 and we have the "Me Generation" on steroids. It is no longer "what can WE do as a team" for the greater good but "what can I do" that will get me attention and perhaps put me into digital history.

That attitude is not one that will sustain Devuan or free software for that matter.

What we don't need are more derivatives or fancy color wheels etc.. In fact, that misdirected energy will be the nail in the coffin of "free software".

I gave up using "GooGoo" for web browsing over a decade ago. I do have a few email accounts which I keep archived for historical purposes and for other functions which would be a PITA to switch to elsewhere.

Of course,  Camtaf. My point is that what is appropriate for this forum and what is appropriate for WWW are two entirely different things. Spinoffs posted to WWW are very carefully vetted over a long period of time..

That suggestion is misinformed and premature.

Do we really need another grain of sand on the beach? Vanity derivatives are a dime a dozen and not all of them make it to WWW.

Only derivatives that have been well received,  tested and vetted get that far.

Start by introducing the derivative to:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewforum.php?id=9 and

See what the response is and go from there.

PS. Also note that new well-vetted derivatives are only added to WWW at the time of a new release.

The "Guide" is within the category of "Documentation". Do we need to eliminate that option?

FYI . . . it's soooo easy to make the nonsense vanish here.   

FYI . . . a fixed width of text makes a verbose post a pain to read . . . 

@IamThatIam . . . Paragraphs exist for a reason. Your unintelligible "glob" is something I can imagine an AI would regurgitate. I just don't have the skills to decipher that "dump". But then I could never get a handle on James Joyce either . . . LOL!

The mind is the source of all our woes . . .

If you know anything of human history, the pattern is to create new tools/toys which eventually come to bite us badly. That is because humans are fatally flawed in their judgment and motivations. What is needed is a transformation of the human mind from never-ending pursuits of froth and foam that keeps us running in place and repeating the same blunders over and over .  .  .

IOW . . . we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot!

Perhaps we are what we eat but we definitely become what we think. All the Sci-Fi I read in the 50s is now horrifyingly manifested in our daily life.

We need deep wisdom not a roller coaster of titillation with shiny new s**t to survive the future that is on our doorstep . . .

I am happy to hear that some of the feedback was useful.

Also consider this . . . Do not mourn the closure of that preliminary exploration! Behemoth threads running over a long period of time quickly get bogged down. Breaking up the progress of a project into smaller bits makes it easier to find stuff and also to do side-by-side comparisons.