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(on Wikipedia)
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=Devuan
https://devuan.org/

Debian without systemd.

Overall it's good, but I switched to Debian because the Pyra will use it.

• See also /tag/linux-distributions-based-on-devuan

• 2017-07-24 - switched to Debian

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• Also

  • dev-one.org
  • dev-1.org
  • devuanzuwu3xoqwp.onion
• talk.devuan.org
• IRC channel: #devuan on freenode.net
• https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/home
• http://wiki.friendsofdevuan.org/doku.php
• https://talk.devuan.org/tags/documentation
• https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devuan-announce (broken?)
• https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

• nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.devuan.devel

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• 2017-07-07 - Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
• 2017-07-02 - jessie_1.0.0_i386_desktop-live
• 2017-06-00 -- I did a dist-upgrade, and while it works it's a bit busted. It seems to require systemd for me.
• 2016-11-29 - 1.0.0-beta using it now.
• 2016-11-07 -- Oh, it's real now!

• 2015-05-11 -- I'm not really interested in this. The project has not really started.

2017-07-07 - Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD ∞

These notes might be a bit disjoined since my paper notes were misplaced and I found them a month later.

prepared with a simple dd

• Has a live copy2ram

• Doesn't get the display right, it mirrors, but the resolution is okay. To fix, I guess.

  • No stretch functionality
• Quite manual for the setup
• GParted
• manually select partitions for mount points

• I'm going to have to go back to ext4, and drop btrfs.

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• TODO - edit fstab with UUIDs
• couldn't go back to the locale selection
• my choice of encrypted password never matches...
• no LVM options?
• TODO - get the Devuan install ISO

• alt-escape isn't mapped

user: devuan

• wow, very manual and specific

• freezes on the GRUB install

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• Debian live-screen locked, don't know password.
• Tried to switch to root, "
• Cannot cancel attempt'
• c-a-f7
• console auto-login
• pass=live

• root has no password

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I installed MATE.

• "Graphical install" freezes

• Cold boot, retry

  • The same, though numlock is slow to respond
• I waited a lot longer, and it was just very slow.
• Fast and simple installer
• When erasing for encryption, cancel, is slow.
• I made devuan-vg

• I don't know how to make an unencrypted partition when I'm working with encrypted partitions.

  • Perhaps with the advanced install?

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Booted up fine

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• No dual monitor

  • No, it works, I had to un-check [_] same image in all monitors

• caja as root?

  • caga-exceptions-common -> no
• It has no btrfs support
• I cannot install btrfs-tools, it prompts for the Debian DVD. I got it manuall from Debian
• Devuan is i686? No, uname is wrong.

• I have a duplicate vgroup name! ARGH!

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• Reinstall, fix system name

• Try advanced, for an alternate partitioning

  • I don't know how to set up an encrypted LVM
  • doing guided, I'll separate/resize later, I guess.

• TODO - disable ntp, check other services.

  • /etc/apt/sources.list -> remove the cdrom reference.. then apt-get update

2017-07-02 - jessie_1.0.0_i386_desktop-live ∞

• root / toor
• devuan / devuan
• The default screen is nice
• Startup freezes on the initial initrd line, but is otherwise fast enough.

• Needs lvm2 by default.

  • apt-get install lvm2
• Fucking thunar. Why do people use shit like this?

• The desktop uses the top-bar bottom-dock nonsense. Idiots.

2016-11-29 - 1.0.0-beta ∞

A new version came out on the day I finally got everything up and running.. =/ Here's hoping it's happy as a rolling-release.

• The guided encrypted LVM - when it overwrites with random data, the text is cut off.

• Can I urandom, after the fact, into a file within the LVM/encrypted LV?

• TODO? - Resize the partition using GParted Live?

  • Then resize the LVM
  • Then make another partition outside of the LVM, accessible by Windows?

• Is there an offline installer ISO?

  • Well since packages are cached, I could copy them to make them available offline.
  • TODO - resurrect my offline updating project and share it.

Attempting to semi-manually set things up so I could have a leftover partition for Windows would not work..

• One setup asked me for a kernel, what's the right choice?

  • linux-image-686-paw seems okay, I guess.

• initrd is asking for either the generic or targeted initrd. I chose targeted.

The install seemed to go well, but upon reboot the keyboard was frozen when it was asking for the password prompt. This is likely the same problem I was recently having with dm-crypt on Slackware.

2016-11-07 - devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta_i386_CD ∞

They're using the earlier kernel 3.16.7, so perhaps my freezing issues (which may or may not have to do with the kernel version) will not exist for Devuan.

• TODO - https://git.devuan.org/users/sign_in
• TODO - https://files.devuan.org/?ref=/os/download

• http://packages.devuan.org/merged (jessie/main)

I don't know that the main thing will be appropriate, so I'll check out distributions based on it..

Distributions based on Devuan ∞

/tag/linux-distributions-based-on-devuan

Gnuinos ∞

http://gnuinos.org/index.php/en/

• Openbox
• Minimalistic
• 2017-06-30 - Still alpha
• May require its own packages channel.

• Has no community? No forum or mailing list that I can see.

Nelum-Dev1 ∞

https://nelum-dev1.sourceforge.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nelum-dev1/

• Openbox, xfce, MATE
• "Created to showcase Devuan", I'm not sure if this is a "real" distro.
• No real website

• https://sourceforge.net/p/nelum-dev1/discussion/ is a ghost town.

STAR ∞

https://linnix.sourceforge.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix/

• xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox, Jwm, i3
• Meant to be a minimal starting point.

• No real website

CROWZ ∞

https://crowz.sourceforge.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/crowz/

• Openbox, Fluxbox, JWM
• live-hybrid
• Minimal

• No real website