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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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live-iso w. backports kernel for testing new hardware

Recently a couple people in irc were trying to install excalibur because they had hardware too new for daedalus. Right now that's a bad idea because excalibur is still in testing and it's changing (and breaking) fast. When it goes into freeze it will settle down and be easier to use.

I made a daedalus live-iso with backports kernel (6.9.7)
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 1_0049.iso

I started with a refracta-nox iso that has lots of extra utilities and added xorg, openbox, lxpanel and a few firmware packages and network-manager. The iso can be used to test a newer kernel, to install with refractainstaller or do a debootstrap install. It uses only devuan repositories, so if you install it, you are installing devuan.

Almost forgot...  Here's the README:

root password:    root

sudo is enabled without password for shutdown and reboot.
Right-click on the desktop to reboot or shutdown immediately.

sudo with password is enabled for all commands during a live session.

There is no display manager. Use 'startx' to get an openbox
session.

Installed firmware packages:
amd64-microcode
firmware-amd-graphics
firmware-atheros
firmware-brcm80211
firmware-iwlwifi
firmware-linux-free
firmware-misc-nonfree
firmware-realtek
intel-microcode