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golinux

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Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 stable release

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers,

Devuan Developers are delighted to announce the release of Devuan Beowulf 3.0.0 as the project's new stable release. This is the result of many months of painstaking work by the Team and detailed testing by the wider Devuan community.

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Plentyn

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Registered: 2017-07-14

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congratulations to all you beautiful people!

rolfie

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Well done! Thank you all for your work.

rolfie

Excalibur

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

I have Beowulf working on 2 laptops and a Lenovo micro PC. No problems whatsoever. Well done Devuan developers.

sgage

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Registered: 2016-12-01

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congrats for the official release of Beowulf! A tiny bit anticlimactic for me, since I've been running it since January, but nice to have it official! :-)  Good show, everybody on the Devuan Team!

szutt

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Registered: 2019-02-03

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congratulations, great job guys ! Thank you !

Andre4freedom

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Registered: 2017-11-15

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Thank you all!!
You have done an extraordinary job to make an extraordinarily good OS even better!
Congratulations.
Good luck for all your further undertakings. I sure will follow Devuan and will try to help using the forums etc.

larsH

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Hi

As a newcomer to Devuan (one month) I will say thank you for this wonderful and well made distribution, with a lot of friendly people and nice community. I am sure I will stay here for quite a while.

Have a nice day

PedroReina

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congratulations. Excelent work. Thanks to the team.

HevyDevy

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congrats to all involved, probably the best version of gnu/linux available in my opinion.  To add i downloaded and installed to a usb stick yesterday with encryption and it is working great, added some parameters to make it a bit speedier for usb, but overall the install went flawlessly.

catprints

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Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Thank you many times. Devuan is appreciated greatly.

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PRafael

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congrats to the team. Great work
Regards

Paulo

Head_on_a_Stick

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Congratulations to the team, epic work. I've tested the netinstall image in QEMU and I can confirm that my reported locale bug[0] is squished :-)

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Ogis1975

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Thanks goes to all devs and community to this great release!

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bimon

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Registered: 2019-09-09

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congratulations!

Can you please provide a full set of DVD ISO like:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/cu … 4/iso-dvd/

? It would be very desirable at least for the latest files from oldstable ASCII.

Thank you very much.

Last edited by bimon (2020-06-04 17:50:08)

rolfie

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

@bimon: simply use the Download link on the top of the forum page and look at what you find there. Is this what you desire?

rolfie

Last edited by rolfie (2020-06-04 19:00:11)

bimon

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I need a standalone FULL set of files (including those from Debian) available offline to install without an Internet connection.

If something goes wrong with Debian mirrors or Devuan mirrors or Devuan online smart merging with Debian it would be very desirable to have a full set of offline disks like it is present for Centos/Redhat, even Debian and many more distros.

It seems download link has only a single ISO with a minimum set of files just to bootstrap the installation process and get system downloading missing files from the Internet?

How can Devuan suit to only a single 4GB disk if Debian of the same release level takes at least 3 (three) disks?

Do 4GB Devuan desktop ISO in conjunction with 3 Debian ISOs of the same release have all the deb files ever used?
Can someone please do a script to merge those ISOs to produce 3x4GB full pure Devuan ISOs ?

Can /etc/apt/sources.list be configured to take local ISOs file://  like  1 Devuan ISO + 3 Debian ISOs to provide full set of debs for an offline work?

Last edited by bimon (2020-06-04 18:12:15)

rolfie

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Have you ever used all 4 Debian DVDs for an offline install? I never have needed anything else but the "desktop" DVD.

rolfie

Last edited by rolfie (2020-06-04 19:02:55)

larsH

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Hi

There seems to be no full images of the entire devuan archive. And I don't think there will ever be. So you must use one of the other solutions and make for instance a sdcard or hdd with the packages you need besides the iso. Or make your own local copy of the entire archive.

Almost no one will have the need for everything offline these days. If I had to do some enterprise work with a good default configuration I would make a default good setup and copy it over to the other installs.

Have a nice day
Lars H

Last edited by larsH (2020-06-04 19:12:00)

PedroReina

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

added some parameters to make it a bit speedier for usb

Could you give us any hint (may be in another topic)?. It sound interesting to me. Thanks.

PedroReina

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

and make for instance a sdcard or hdd with the packages you need besides the iso

It seems a very good idea. When I install a box with Devuan, I keep the downloaded packages on a USB stick. When I install the next box, I copy all the downloaded packages to /var/cache/apt/archives/.

Or make your own local copy of the entire archive.

Indeed. apt-cacher is great when you admin a network of Devuan boxes.

uther

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Registered: 2019-05-16

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Congratulations to the Team! Great work!

Last edited by uther (2020-06-05 13:37:32)

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Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

I've been an ardent AntiX user for several years, but this Beowulf release is calling to me, I've dabbled with Devuan before now, but have always gone back to my regular distro - maybe my time has come to convert.....

Job

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Registered: 2019-03-13

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

Thank you Devuan team for a great distro.  Beowulf on a server, desktop, and laptop. Laptop about to move to Chimaera.

mweishaar

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Re: Beowulf 3.0.0 is here!

I am still running ascii, but am looking forward to doing the dist-upgrade to beowulf.  I did a little test on it today, and thought I would share.

I created two identical VMs, one installing ascii, and the other with beowulf.  Then I did the dist-upgrade on ascii.  It all went very smoothly.

Here are the commands I used to create the vms, I chose the same options during both installations.

virt-install --name=devuan_beowulf_vm --vcpus=2 --memory=2048 -c /storage3/iso/devuan_beowulf/installer-iso/devuan_beowulf_3.0.0_amd64-desktop.iso --disk /storage3/kvmhdd/devuan_beowulf,size=15 --graphics spice

virt-install --name=devuan_ascii_vm --vcpus=2 --memory=2048 -c /storage3/iso/devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1.iso --disk /storage3/kvmhdd/devuan_ascii,size=15 --graphics spice

The installer for beowulf was the old-style texty installer.  I got the iso via the torrent link on the devuan announcement.

1.  The boot screen for upgraded-ascii is nice with Devuan Beowulf colors and Devuan logo.  The one for Beowulf is texty like the installer, and is actually how my current ascii system looks.

2.  In the out-of-the-box install, Beowulf uses less memory.  I restarted the VMs a few times, and usage did vary a little, but it was right around 14 MB less used for Beowulf.

Image for boot screen:

Image for memory usage (using gkrellm)