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Robin

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From: Georgia, USA

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My Blog Post About Devuan

Here is a blog post I wrote about Devuan and some of the "lessons learned" from my experience so far.

Be kind though, I'm a newbie.

-Robin

abower

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Registered: 2024-04-19

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Re: My Blog Post About Devuan

Thoughtful reflections; thank you for sharing!

PedroReina

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Re: My Blog Post About Devuan

I'm a newbie.

Your're not! But good try. Welcome to the forum, mate.

fsmithred

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Re: My Blog Post About Devuan

Ditto what Pedro said.

Nice blog post. Thanks!  I read your other one about Devuan and in it you state that the Refracta uses xlibre. In fact, Refracta uses xorg in the official releases, but you must have picked my test build with xlibre that's in the experimental directory.

That iso was made to test support for seatd in xlibre. There's no elogind in that build, but it'll get pulled in if you install the right things. If you're missing some functions even with elogind, make sure you also have libpam-elogind.

Oh, one more thing about that iso - it's devuan freia, which is still in the testing phase. Don't be surprised if you get 100 package upgrades per day along with occasional breakage. That's one way to learn.

Have fun, and Happy Hacking!

Robin

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From: Georgia, USA

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Re: My Blog Post About Devuan

Freia, huh? That would be interesting! But in fact, there have been no updates since I installed it about 4 days ago. Perhaps I was wrong about the Xlibre reference in my blog post.

Okay, just checked Fastfetch: It's Excalibur, after all. I should edit my blog post next.

But since it hasn't updated, I suppose I should ask: How often should I expect updates in Excalibur?

Thanks very much!