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Update 12-26-2024- Well that was an interesting run, alpha 5.00, beta 5.01 that never went up for more than a day, and now 5.02 which is basically a release-candidate. First up is the Mate-mini version as I am still working on a unified theme for the Openbox versions, almost done like 98% with that, but the Mate version is done so posting that up.
Will be posting up Openbox versions hopefully by the weekend.
This is nice, the alpha versions were just throwing up some stuff and seeing how it worked, beta a little more effort, these are much better tested and modded, can't find anything wrong with the mate version at all. It's using a modded blue submarine for theme and looks pretty dang good. The unified theme for Openbox has been a lot of work, combining heavily modded version of blue submarine, numix-frost, and Miyolinux-Dark into one theme....almost done and looking amazing.
Link for mate-mini:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … Mate-mini/
The readme:
Vuu-do 5.02 mate-mini. 12-25-24 Lots of changes made:
Bluetooth is enabled on boot, have also added bluez, firmware, and the bluez-alsa
packages, so even your bluetooth headphones will work with alsa now.Cups has been removed, just makes sense in a truly minimal system, you would
likely have to add a whole lot more to print than just cups anyway, makes more
sense to have cups and the rest of the whole shebang to print on a max version.Cleaned up bugs, cleaned up theme issues, cleaned out some old libraries that
were hanging around from openbox. Got rid of some of my stupid stuff, fair bit
actually. Every thing feels tight and fast now, took a lot of runs to get here.I have xset turned off after boot with a small script and there's no power-manager
or screensaver program installed, so by default it won't automatically
blank/suspend/poweroff your machine while you're in session.If you'd like to restore it to factory setting just check the menu and go to
System>>Preferences>>Startup Applications, it's listed there with options to
turn off or remove altogether. For more control over everything, install one of
the power-management/screensaver apps in the repo.Compositor is turned off. To turn on just look in the menu and change settings
in "appearance" and also in "windows" in System>>Preferences>>Look and Feel.Nice clean canvas to build on, still small enough to fit on a CD.
As always, this is a project, user-spin, experimental. It has been localized for english and UTF-8 and lacks some accessibility features. To re-enable translations you would need to build from the ground up, or else re-install a lot of packages in an installed system, but that's totally do-able if you're motivated.
This is the minimal, no browser or media or office programs, just the infrastructure and some helpful utilities. And of course Refracta-snapshot and Installer.
At it's heart, this is still and always will be, a user-spin of the original Miyolinux I first tried in 2017. It's all modern, but still contains modded original MIYO artwork and theme choices. And absolutely conforms to the philosophy I share with Miyolinux: MAKE IT YOUR OWN!
It's fast, light on resources, works wonderfully on the laptop I built it with, a circa 2012 cheapie with an AMD dual-core APU. It should work then on almost any machine made since then and likely many made years before as long as you have a 64-bit processor and at least a gig of ram.
This is far more complete and elegant than Vuu-do 1, I really went the extra mile with everything. Check release notes for details or have a look at my threads.
Been a long time coming, and a ton of work...Special thanks to the VUA's and the whole Devuan team and the members of this forum for all they do and the help they've given me.
Extra-special thanks to Miyo (Dan), Golinux, and the amazing Fsmithred, who make it all possible and have supported me every step of the way.
Also shout out to coffee, cheap walmart whiskey, and CBD gummies for helping me power though these last few weeks.
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Just ran the first test iso and i'm stoked, goal was to keep it under 700mb (for the mini, no way I can do that when I make the maximal), first run is 625 mb.
Yeah i'm a dinosaur, I still like burning iso's to CD.
That makes me happy, got a little breathing room, and there are some other small utilities that I can now include that are worthwhile.
Refracta-snapshot didn't want to work at first, as it turns out when I loaded some additional firmware and it updated the initrd, it didn't abide by the initramfs.conf file and converted it from zstd to cpio. So rather than make a new initrd image I downloaded the newer 10.4 version of snapshot and installed and it worked like a charm. Thank you for the thousandth time @fsmithred!
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IT IS ALIVE! Back from the grave like a good zombie after a 7 year hiatus.
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Well done, greenjeans!!
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Thanks my friend! It's been good for me, learned a LOT of new stuff along the way so it was worth the effort for that alone.
Updated and cleaned up the Sourceforge pages a fair bit, still have some more to do though. Am taking a small break right now, but about to begin work on the maximal version, but that should be fairly easy, the real work is in grinding out all the configs in the minimal.
Weird calling it a minimal when it's actually larger then the maximal of Vuu-do 1, the times they are a-changin'.......
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New maximal uploaded 12-14-2024! Hope folks like it.
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I just can't help myself, it's like a 7 year itch, once I start it's hard to stop.
Yesterday I built a Vuu-do Mate mini and rolled up the iso late last night, testing it today. It wasn't bad at all as i'd already laid the groundwork, I built it off the openbox mini so it already had all the hardest stuff done. And best of all I just barely made it to CD size, 699.5 mb!
Just installed core Mate packages plus useful caja right-click options, was already using Pluma and Engrampa anyway, but I didn't throw the whole Mate kitchen sink at it, for good reason, actually used some different options for some things.
The EOM mate picture viewer, task-manager/system monitor, calculator, and screenshot additions together are over 100 mb of stuff, just to do simple tasks.
Gpicview, LXtask, Galculator and Scrot do all the same stuff basically, and together are less than 10 mb and work much faster. Even got all my regular choice of keybinds working great.
It's dang fast for Mate, not quite as quick as Openbox, but very nice. Not sure i'm going to do a maximal version though. Maybe.
Right now the menu is super-quick, but in a full version the svg icons slow it down and make it glitch (at least on my low power machine), svg icons i'm seeing these days are much smaller and better than they used to be, but still for major programs i'd need to make png copies in several sizes and use those instead to stop the menu issues on older machines like mine.
Still pondering the idea of a fully translatable version of the openbox max. But man, that's probably an extra 600 mb of stuff when all is said and done, and I have never tried to change languages on a machine, don't even know how and wouldn't be able to test properly if I did, I speak a little Spanish but not enough.
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New Mate-mini Vuu-do uploaded!
Now maybe I can take a break, happy holidays everybody!
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happy holidays everybody!
Indeed! Winter solstice is happening right now. Will make it to US tomorrow morning. Rejoice that at least some things in the universe are predictable . . .
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Yeah Numix-Frost is badly broken on the GTK3 side. For now in the 5.01 Mate version, i'm going with all Blue Submarine with just a tweak to the tooltips. It's a nice looking theme, not as easy on the eyes as the classic Vuu-do colors, but pretty nice, think I may leave it that way.
Working on a new theme for the Openbox versions, cobbling together some elements from Numix-Frost, Blue Submarine, and Miyolinux dark to make something that works well and looks the same in gtk2 and gtk3 apps. It will also work in Mate once I get done with it.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do/ New Vuu-do isos uploaded 12/24!
Vuu-do GNU/Linux, minimal Devuan-based openbox systems to build on, maximal versions if you prefer your linux fully-loaded.
New Devuan-mate-mini isos too!
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5.02 mate-mini uploaded, check OP for details.
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Vuu-do GNU/Linux, minimal Devuan-based openbox systems to build on, maximal versions if you prefer your linux fully-loaded.
New Devuan-mate-mini isos too!
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Posting from first run of the openbox mini now, looks great, just a couple more hunt-down-the-css-that-did-this-crap issues and it's ready.
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Vuu-do GNU/Linux, minimal Devuan-based openbox systems to build on, maximal versions if you prefer your linux fully-loaded.
New Devuan-mate-mini isos too!
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