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decuser

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Registered: 2026-04-22

Posts: 7  

New Install

Hi All,

I just got devuan running on my main workstation (laptop):

OS: Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur) x86_64
Host: TUXEDO Stellaris AMD Gen5 (Standard)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.94+deb13-amd64
Uptime: 13 hours, 43 mins
Packages: 4261 (dpkg), 18 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.37
Display (DELL U2713HM): 2560x1440 @ 60 Hz in 27" [External]
DE: Cinnamon 6.4.10
WM: Muffin (X11)
WM Theme: cinnamon (Default)
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3/4]
Icons: Deepsea [GTK2/3/4]
Font: Sans (9pt) [GTK2/3/4]
Cursor: Adwaita (24px)
Terminal: GNOME Terminal 3.56.2
Terminal Font: Monospace (13pt)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (16) @ 5.14 GHz
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q / Mobile [Discrete]
GPU 2: AMD Radeon 780M [Integrated]
Memory: 77.87 GiB / 92.12 GiB (85%)
Swap: 0 B / 93.79 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 78.38 GiB / 1.70 TiB (5%) - ext4
Disk (/prime): 18.95 GiB / 1.05 TiB (2%) - zfs
Local IP (eth0): 192.168.1.74/24
Battery (standard): 100% [AC Connected]
Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I'd been trying every 3 months or so, but I couldn't get it to do external monitors gracefully, which was a deal killer for me. I finally managed (thanks ChatGPT) to get it working. So, it's my daily driver now. I'm struggling a bit with sysvinit, but I'm glad to be off the systemd dependency. I heart Mint, but I don't care for the Ubuntu / Systemd cruft.

I figured out that my most common systemd things are enabling, disabling, starting, stopping and restarting services. Is there more to this than:

update-rc.d autofs defaults
service autofs start

service autofs restart

type stuff? I did my gazillion package installs and configurations and didn't hit any blockers, but I could have sworn that the last time I tried this i hit the wall on some software that wouldn't work without systemd, is that still the case?

Thanks!

fsmithred

Administrator

Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,923  

Re: New Install

Here's the full list for autofs. I've only ever used stop|start|restart. :

# service autofs
Usage: /etc/init.d/autofs {start|forcestart|stop|restart|forcerestart|reload|force-reload|status}

There might be commands on the other end, depending on what you're automounting. (e.g. commands for samba or nfs)

You shouldn't need to set the defaults with update-rc.d unless you changed them.

Any packages that require systemd should not show up in our repo. If you run into one, let us know about it.

decuser

Member

Registered: 2026-04-22

Posts: 7  

Re: New Install

When I install a service, does it get enabled by default?

Andre4freedom

Member

Registered: 2017-11-15

Posts: 262  

Re: New Install

Mostly yes.
If you do the status command as indicated by fsmithred, you will know.
Holds true usually for sysvinit and openrc.

decuser

Member

Registered: 2026-04-22

Posts: 7  

Re: New Install

ah, cool. status . duh.