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samhain

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Registered: 2017-04-03

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Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Latest iteration of my Devuan Testing + TDE Remaster for AMD64. And I finally gave it a name

What do you get:
- Devuan Testing
- TDE 14.2
- Openscad
- Zim Desktop Wiki
- most firmeware blobs
- firefox
- dark theme

UID / PWD:
user / user
root / toor

ISO: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness-20240918.iso
SHA256: https://samhain.at/devuan_tde/darkness- … iso.sha256

Note: default language is austrian german. Russian and englisch language packs are installed, too.

Screenshots:

Please test and report any issues you find here.

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Hello.

Thank you for your work! How about iso, based of Devuan 5 (stable)?

samhain

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Well, there are lots of "stable" remixes, but not a lot of "testing", e.g. "exegnulinux" is stable + TDE - so no need for another stable remix

stopAI

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Thanks for the reply.

Personally, I don't think using testig in production env is a good idea, so I'll refrain from testing your iso. Have a good day.

samhain

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

As the name says: "testing" is for testing. If don't want to test, then don't.

Tony45

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Registered: 2024-11-01

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

I have just now downloaded and tested in RAM your ISO.
I think it's an excellent piece of work !
I really hope you carry on with it

The reason I tested in RAM is that it was << sort of >> confusing to install. Too technical for a beginner ( to understand ) and for an old fart like me ( 80 Years ) .
Or maybe just a bad day ?  ?  ?

However, special thanks for using Pulseaudio and keeping pipewire out of the installation-iso
The reason for saying so, is that PW makes each and every distro/DE on distrowatch crackle like hell when playing Midi-files. I tested 18 of them already for this issue
Please keep PA in the iso and PW in the repositories
Right now the sound is 127% Cristal-clear and distortion-free with Timidity

Will try install again soon

Hope to see more soon
Bye  !

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

PW makes each and every distro/DE on distrowatch crackle like hell when playing Midi-files.

FWIW, pipewire works just fine with fluidsynth (via ALSA sequencer port) here, and on every distro I've used that packages those.
Timidity OTOH, AFAICT has been pretty much a zombie project since 2004.

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Tony45

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

I managed to install it on HD.
I have updated and installed a few dozen appz.
Everything seems to work very well and sound is perfect.

FWIW, pipewire works just fine with fluidsynth (via ALSA sequencer port) here, and on every distro I've used that packages those.
Timidity OTOH, AFAICT has been pretty much a zombie project since 2004.

My experience is, on my hardware, timidity always works perfect--> if no PW is installed of course . If installed, it distorts Midi on Timidity
For testing, I use < Pianobooster > as this is the most sensitive app I know !
Midi files crackle on each and every distro that comes with PW inside the ISO
Removing PW does not solve the problem as the damage is done already to other parts of the setup
I tried more than 20 distros ( tde and cinnamon ) already....all same
There are of course a few PW-libraries which don't do damage

As I said, your TDE on my hardware , so far works perfect
I will keep on testing for a week .
Thanks

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

I will keep on testing for a week .

Hello.

TDE R14.1.3 has been released in 2024.10.27. Did you upgraded your install? If so, how did it go?

zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Ah yes, KDE3... the last kde that looks semi-good.

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Tony45

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

TDE R14.1.3 has been released in 2024.10.27. Did you upgraded your install? If so, how did it go?

There was no problem at all

stopAI

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

There was no problem at all

Thank you for the info.

samhain

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Re: Darkness - ISO Devuan Testing + TDE for AMD64

Thank you for testing. Refractainstaller is a bit tricky, but I did not find anything better yet so I stick with it

TDE14.2 (which I use) is the dev branche of TDE. Upgrades are usalluay very smooth without surprises.