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idle

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Registered: Yesterday

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REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

Long-time DEVUAN user, now exploring usage of refractasnapshot.

That brought me to the REFRACTA homepage, where I became interested to read about what the differences are that set REFRACTA apart from DEVUAN desktop-live.

I didn't see the answer on the homepage (or from a quick forum-search).

One item of interest that I noticed in Release notes was NoScript in the browser.

Are there any other items (major/minor) that folks should be aware of?

Last edited by idle (Today 06:41:09)

samhain

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Registered: 2017-04-03

Posts: 81  

Re: REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

From https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan :
"desktop-live: Explore the default Xfce desktop before installing. Then install easily and quickly from the live session using the refractainstaller."
so ...

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 551  

Re: REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

Check out the packages differences between them.

https://refracta.org/docs/package_list.txt

Last edited by Camtaf (Today 09:08:12)

fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,900  

Re: REFRACTA vs. DEVUAN desktop-live, differences ?

Refracta has

- few metapackages and excludes Recommends to make it leaner and easier to remove packages to customize the system. It used to fit on one CD.
- added diagnostic, rescue and repair tools, mostly cli.
- a few config tweaks - kernel.sysrq=1 in sysctl.conf, ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS in adduser.conf, ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes in /etc/default/su and a few others.
- openssh-server running so you can log in remotely if there's no display. NOTE: The world knows your password. You should be behind a router and not have port forwarding set up or else unplug the network cable.
- Refracta is older than Devuan. That's why the version numbers match Debian's.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but those are the main differences.