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Fierelier

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Registered: 2023-01-24

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windvn - Excalibur i386 ISO with linux-libre

Since Debian Trixie (and by extension Excalibur) no longer has an i386 kernel, but still has other i386 packages, I've decided to make an ISO image which uses the linux-libre kernel (thanks to hacksenwerk). It's a bit scrappy, because there is a lot of cruft from this being an old project, and me having been more inexperienced. But it works. I would like to make it more solid sometime.

Note that due to technical limitations with live-setup/grub-mkrescue, the setup makes use of the Daedalus kernel, but the linux-libre kernel is used for the installed system.

* Features:
- Supports i386
- Custom installer that requires less memory to work than Devuan's vanilla setup
- Partition containing /home can easily be encrypted (swap is located in /home, so if encrypted, swap is encrypted too)
- Xfce desktop with defaults that are similar to Windows, composition disabled by default
- Live environment has desktop (go to bash and run startx)
- Lots of little tweaks that get rid of things I find annoying (like fading scrollbars)

The installer is not as easy to use as Devuan/Debian's, you need more experience about how disks need to be partitioned and formatted to have success.

* Source
* ISO (http) - sha256: 9e47f585866d7ff8a14dc8e6d219bae29b722cfce16353c118fb39f9f1507881

I make no guarantees whatsoever. Use at your own discretion.

Last edited by Fierelier (2025-03-20 09:46:42)

greenjeans

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Re: windvn - Excalibur i386 ISO with linux-libre

Cool! Will check it out, nice to see folks like you and fsmithred working to keep 32 bit alive.

- Lots of little tweaks that get rid of things I find annoying (like fading scrollbars)

Even better! I really don't like my scrollbars fading, or those awful skinny scrollbars either.

EDIT: fsmithred has an iso too that might be of interest or help to you, see this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7011

Last edited by greenjeans (2025-03-20 18:58:49)

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Fierelier

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Registered: 2023-01-24

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Re: windvn - Excalibur i386 ISO with linux-libre

Thank you, tell me what you think. I'll definitely check out Refrecta, it seems like fsmithred and I share a lot of similar ideas :>