Devuan-Mate-Mini: New upload 12/06/24

greenjeans · 2024-12-01 05:52:19

UPDATE: New iso uploaded 12/06/24 which includes grub-pc for legacy-BIOS systems.

Hello friends, just did another small project i've been meaning to do for a while, Devuan-mate-mini, here is the readme for it:

This is not an official Devuan release, nor a Vuu-do release. This is a user re-spin of Devuan Daedalus, updated completely as of 12/06/2024 with the Mate desktop environment. This is a liveCD and includes the Refracta-installer for fast simple install. This is not uefi-enabled.
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Changes in su
- The behavior of su has changed. Use 'su -' to get root's path or use
the full path to commands if you use only 'su'.
- There are several ways to get the old behavior. The easiest is to
edit /etc/default/su to add the line:
ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes

(greenjeans: I tested the above solution and it works, just need to create the file "su" in /etc/default/ as it doesn't have one by default)
OS-prober is disabled by default when you install grub, explained in this bit from /usr/share/grub/default/grub:
# If your computer has multiple operating systems installed, then you
# probably want to run os-prober. However, if your computer is a host
# for guest OSes installed via LVM or raw disk devices, running
# os-prober can cause damage to those guest OSes as it mounts
# filesystems to look for things.
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=true
This is default as-delivered and good policy to protect those who need it, but if you'd like to change that you can do it anytime including on the live session before you install if so desired. Edit /etc/default/grub and /usr/share/grub/default/grub as root and change the true to false. The changes will persist into the installed system and it will run os-prober during install and your other installs will be recognized. If you do this post install, make sure and run update-grub afterwards.
If you are running a GPT/EFI system, you should be able to boot the LiveDVD/USB, open and reload synaptic, install grub-efi-amd64 while in live session (thus un-installing grub-pc) and the changes will persist to the install and you'll have EFI grub, and if you've changed the above grub settings in that same live-session it will run os-prober when you install. Theoretically anyway, would love if someone would test this and report results over on dev1galaxy.org.
If you have an EFI system already with other OS'es on other partitions and have grub installed already and don't need a bootloader, just install it without installing the bootloader, then boot into your partition that controls grub and run update-grub.
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In all respects it is identical to current Devuan, I have not "vuu-do-fied" it, it contains all original files, docs, translations, help files, original configs, artwork etc. with the following exceptions:
This is a "mini", it contains no browser, office or multimedia programs whatsoever, just the infrastructure for you to build on and configure as you see fit. There are no release notes or manual as this is stock Devuan and ample documentation is available on their site and forum.
Some packages have been added for convenience, these are:
Brasero - CD/DVD burning
Mozo - simple mate menu editor
Mate-tweak - handy utility, gets rid of pesky desktop icons if you so desire
Parcellite - clipboard manager
NTPsec - keeps time correct
Caja file manger extensions - very handy stuff, resize-rotate images, open terminal here, edit/open as root etc.
Slight mods to config:
File-manager configged to open files with single-click and include delete command that bypasses trash - this made my work go much faster.
Altered sources.list as main repo has been having some issues, changed to what's been working for me and what I used to build this iso.
Set lightdm.conf to autologin the user on the liveDVD for convenience.
Username/passwords for LiveDVD:
guest = guest
root = root

Last edited by greenjeans (2024-12-07 06:09:10)

m1k3 · 2024-12-04 18:05:52

Thanks a bunch! Downloading now to try it out. I've been contemplating going back to good ol' MATE recently.

greenjeans · 2024-12-05 14:37:06

Thanks a bunch! Downloading now to try it out. I've been contemplating going back to good ol' MATE recently.]

My pleasure friend! Yeah, I just have to go back to cushy ol MATE every now and then, plus I do a lot of conversions for older folks and the MATE interface is very easy for them to pickup on as it's similar in it's basic functions as older versions of windoze that most of them used to use.

greenjeans · 2024-12-07 00:21:02

So been on it for about 10 hours now, lol, just got done squashing a new one to test, i've defaulted it to EFI with regular BIOS available on install in a similar fashion to the Devuan desktop-live iso. Hopefully it works, but I have no way to test the EFI install as my machines aren't. Been a crazy day, 10 minutes ago a water pipe burst in my laundry room and started spewing water everywhere...had to make a mad dash to fix that but fortunately there was a dedicated shutoff to the laundry area, so it's not leaking and we still have water...sheesh...some days you're the windshield, some days you're the bug.

greenjeans · 2024-12-07 05:27:38

So that went off like a lead balloon, just can't get a working iso trying to use efi as default on a machine that's running BIOS.

Ran a new one finally with grub-pc for legacy/BIOS systems and it works great, tested multiple times for proper install and it's working nicely.

As I said, I don't have an EFI machine, but I imagine you can boot this up into a live session, and replace grub-pc with grub-efi-amd64 and should be able to install into an EFI system and use grub, but I have no way of testing, would be awesome if someone could down the iso and test that, I got beer and barbecue with your name on it if you do!

Will be uploading here shortly as soon as I write some new notes in the readme.txt.

greenjeans · 2024-12-07 06:11:21

Upload done. Well that only took 15 hours, woo-hoo! I'm going to bed now.

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Devuan-Mate-Mini: New upload 12/06/24

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