Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

greenjeans · 2025-09-01 23:06:44

New iso uploaded just now, maintenance update but also sort of a control for another experimental iso that is using the Xlibre packages.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

greenjeans · 2026-02-10 02:24:19

So for those unfamiliar, this is NOT an official Devuan iso, nor is it an official Vuu-do iso. It's just a snapshot of vanilla Devuan with the Mate DE, rolled up from the same daedalus iso. Just a simple way to get up and running with Devuan Mate. FYI I forgot to revert sources.list to the default Devuan list, so gnlug is the current default and I don't feel like running another iso just to deal with that! You can change 'em in Synaptic.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

From the readme:
This is not an official Devuan release, nor a Vuu-do release. This is a user re-spin
of Devuan 6 (excalibur), updated completely as of 2/09/2026 with the Mate desktop environment.
It's purpose is to provide a quick small iso for those interested in testing the
Mate version of Devuan.

2-09-2026 Updated fully, some 155 packages including a new kernel. Also added a lot of
firmware packages, mostly for wi-fi and ethernet but also bluetooth and some
graphics stuff including the nvidia graphics package (for nouveau). All this
is to try and insure a user can get full functionality right out of the box.
It does bloat up initrd some, a smart user can get rid of what they don't need
post-install easily enough. I also added addititonal support for viewing and
thumbnailing newer image formats like heif and avif and jxl.

Fixed the alsa-restore issue using fsmithred's fix.

Fixed the dbus spamming issue from rotating the machine-ID using the init script
I posted in this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7414

Fixed the NM-lease spamming by adding to the post-install Refracta script.

Added updated excludes files for Refracta-tools, added some and commented one
which was the one deleting the gtk icon caches, and rebuilt all the icon caches.

Put a halt to the watchdog spam during boot.

Fixed a couple of useless systemd warnings.

Pulled picom out, it was spamming logs when not in use. Mate has a compositor
built-in which it uses by default. If you really want picom it's in the repo
but you'll need mate-tweak to apply it.

Pulled the gnome policy kit auth package, Mate has it's own, also got rid of
gnome keyring and it's depends.

Fixed and expanded sources.list, the default Devuan repo urls are there, and
also (commented out) are the gnlug listings for an alternate repo if you have
issues with DNS.

Changed the theme, the green-blue was just too clash, switched to BlueMenta
for a nice simple interface, and switched to the deepsea icons which are a
nice blue that compliments the Devuan wallpaper. Only issue with those was
the default menu icon was the gnome foot, so that had to go. I found a large
Devuan logo in pixmaps, so I made new icons from it in gimp, looks really
nice I think!

This is a liveCD and includes the Refracta-installer for fast simple install.
This is not uefi-enabled. The os-prober has been enabled when you install grub, if you
need to disable it before install, while still in live-session, just edit
/etc/default/grub and /usr/share/grub/default/grub to disable the prober.
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In all respects it is identical to current Devuan, I have not "vuu-do-fied" it,
it contains all original files, docs, translations, help files, original configs,
artwork etc. with the following exceptions:

This is a "mini", it contains no browser, office or multimedia programs whatsoever,
just the infrastructure for you to build on and configure as you see fit. There are no
release notes or manual as this is stock Devuan and ample documentation is available
on the site and forum.

Had to add firmware for AMD before lightdm would work properly for me, this may be
just my machine, or you may need it for Nvidia and Intel too, just don't know yet,
again this is all from the testing section, and hasn't been declared stable yet.

Some packages have been added for convenience, these are:
Mozo - simple mate menu editor
Mate-tweak - handy utility, gets rid of pesky desktop icons if you so desire
Parcellite - clipboard manager
NTPsec - keeps time correct
Caja file manger extensions - resize-rotate images, open terminal here, edit/open as root etc.
Bleachbit - but it has been configured to NOT delete any translations/localizations.

Slight mods to config:
File-manager configged to open files with single-click and include delete command that
bypasses trash - this made my work go much faster. Altered sources.list as main repo has
been having some issues, changed to what's been working for me and what I used to build this iso.
Set lightdm.conf to autologin the user on the liveDVD for convenience.

Username/passwords for LiveDVD:

devuan = devuan
root = root

greenjeans · Yesterday 18:10:50

For those who are trying it, please let me know of any issues or suggestions, i've still got it loaded up in the build partition and will be testing over the next few days, so it's simple right now for me to fix and roll up a new iso.

Known issues:

1. Takes longer to boot than comparable daedalus systems, right after "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated" it hangs for a bit, it's doing some thing back there, I think my ancient machine is part of the problem, seems to stick thinking about some radeon firmware.

2. As per the usual for Mate for years now, it does spam ~/.xsession-errors a fair bit, tons of reports about it, i'll probably be making another one. It never becomes an issue unless you never shutdown/reboot/logout your machine as that file is replaced with a new one on login.

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#26 2025-09-01 23:06:44

Re: Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

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Re: Devuan 6 (excalibur) mate testing iso uploaded

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