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Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Devuan is a conservative system. The main principle is simplicity and reliability. SysVinit and OpenRC are reliable. Dinit has been in development for 10 years and the author has not yet published the final release 1. The same Turnstile is in development. Therefore, Devuan Unstable + Dinit + Turnstile is an experiment and an alternative to Artix. This may not be supported by the official team. In the world of Deb, experiments are done at AntiX and thanks to their work, this topic is here.

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Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Fixed the unmounting and shutdown in Live mode a little. At the same time, I changed the desktop settings

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nathan2423

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Hello -

I am a new user of Devuan, coming from MX-Linux.  I would very much like access to the MX Tools, especially including snapshot capability.  However I am an XFCE user and don't want to worry with KDE or Sonic.

Would your respin be a good place to start, and just add XFCE when I get it installed, or is there another way to get the full MX tool experience in Devuan?

Thanks very much for your work on this respin.

brocashelm

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

I would very much like access to the MX Tools, especially including snapshot capability.

Have a look at this thread posted at the Debian forums.

Do note that this guide was originally posted in early 2020, so you'll have to change "buster" on the repository sources to "trixie" if using stable (which Excalibur is based on), "forky" if using testing, and so on. It's also not recommended to add third-party repositories to Devuan-based systems in general, in case of build conflicts with any of the distro's banned packages list.

But, give it a shot, and report back if any issues occur.

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Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Fresh link

https://mega.nz/file/f341FL6Y#Ftc7ZxVkF … 3zhMEqZICo

Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

>>Would your respin be a good place to start, and just add XFCE when I get it installed, or is there another way to get the full MX tool experience in Devuan?

Yes. I recently installed XFCE on this system. There are no problems with XFCE and X11.

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nathan2423

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

Thanks to Brocashelm and Valera for those replies.  I am going to try them both as I move forward with this.

I suppose I probably should have asked another obvious question:  Can I take my existing SysVinit MXlinux install and turn it into a Devuan-based MX system?

As I type this I'm realizing surely this has been asked before but rather than delete the question maybe it's not too inappropriate for this specific thread.

EDIT:  So I do see this and presume this is the way to do that, though if anyone knows of something more MX-Specific I'd appreciate it.  I didn't see a similar thread over at the MX forum.  https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … libur.html

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Valera

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Re: MX_Devuan_KDE_dinit

>>I suppose I probably should have asked another obvious question:  Can I take my existing SysVinit MXlinux install and turn it into a Devuan-based MX system?

That's exactly what I did, but it's been a long time ago and it's not that easy.
Now, at your request, I'm making a version with XFCE