Devuan Jessie

BLizgreat! · 2017-05-06 09:35:59

And thanks Hoas, will eventually get around to dorking with runit, though when who knows.

Until then I can count on you to boldly go where many other techies won't and live precariously through your gnu/nix adventures.

Vll!

bigbenaugust · 2017-05-29 15:03:54

So how does it end up working when one installs Devuan on a machine and adds the BL repos? Is it just a matter of "Don't use the exit button and everything will be fine"? That is the impression I got from the above.

Now that Devuan has gone 1.0, I am thinking about slapping it on a machine and I can't think of a better minimalist desktop than the BL Openbox setup with a bunch of stuff disabled.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-05-29 15:24:37

bigbenaugust wrote:

So how does it end up working when one installs Devuan on a machine and adds the BL repos?

I seem to remember that dependency problems stopped any installation from our repositories, I think udev was the major sticking point but it was a while ago and with one of the RC editions rather than the recent release.

bigbenaugust · 2017-05-30 13:38:39

My first Devuan install seems to have choked somewhere between the boot loader install and the disk encryption.

That installer is... a little rough for someone used to the Debian Installer.

bigbenaugust · 2017-05-31 18:15:42

bigbenaugust wrote:

My first Devuan install seems to have choked somewhere between the boot loader install and the disk encryption.
That installer is... a little rough for someone used to the Debian Installer.

... because I downloaded a desktop live ISO when I should have used a regular one.

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-01 15:34:20

I now have two VMs going, one with vanilla Devuan/LXDE and one with STAR (https://sourceforge.net/projects/linnix/), which is sort of a #!/BL sort of a setup atop Devuan.

I am going to try the BL repos on Devuan just to see what I get.

apprentice · 2017-06-01 16:41:25

bigbenaugust wrote:

I am going to try the BL repos on Devuan just to see what I get.

i have vuudu and good life(on ascii) and am very curious to see what you end up with
been wanting to try with mini.iso, but i'll let you be guinea pig

cheers

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-02 15:20:40

Seems functional so far. What I have done:

Installed Devuan 1.0.0 to a VM with encrypted partitions (habit), selected LXDE as desktop
Added BL repos as on: https://www.bunsenlabs.org/repositories.html (and the key)
Installed bunsen-meta-all
Restarted

Looks like there is a wicd/NetworkManager conflict to resolve, but that should be a matter of messing with the autostart file. Not rocket science.

Sector11 · 2017-06-02 15:34:10

^ Drop NM keep WICD - OK, that's an Opinion.

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-02 16:36:37

I like NM because I can manage VPN for work with it also, which I believe wicd isn't able to do. Or at least it wasn't the last time I looked into it. Please educate me if it can handle openconnect stuff, I'd love to try it.

Sector11 · 2017-06-02 17:13:04

I don't use VPN but there is this:

[Solved] Re: Using OpenVPN client with wicd

I went from: NM to WICD to Ceni to nothing. but I'm on a wired connection.

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-02 19:41:50

All of my machines at home are laptops and so have multiple network interfaces, and then you drag VPN management into it, NM works pretty well.

If I had only one wired connection, I'd go back to straight-up putting it in /etc/network/interfaces like old times.

Back to the Devuan/BL setup, I might try this in actual hardware on my netbook after I get back from vacation.

Sector11 · 2017-06-02 20:33:07

@ bigbenaugust

^ well not knowing the lay of the lan(d) {pun intended}, vpan or pancakes, how was I to know.

But that's me - your paragraph 2 up there. Love it.

BLizgreat! · 2017-06-02 23:57:56

In other (Devuan) related news, they finally have a Jessie release out version 1.0 and Debian is about to move on to Stretch. Try as I might I simply can't and won't take Devuan seriously.

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-03 03:28:12

BLizgreat! wrote:

In other (Devuan) related news, they finally have a Jessie release out version 1.0 and Debian is about to move on to Stretch. Try as I might I simply can't and won't take Devuan seriously.

I suspect they'll catch up soon enough.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-06-03 22:52:58

BLizgreat! wrote:

Try as I might I simply can't and won't take Devuan seriously

That's OK BLizzle, I'm sure they don't take you seriously either

For the record, I am deeply impressed by the achievements of the Devuan team and I wish them every luck in their future endeavors.

@bigbenaugust: thanks for the feedback, I may try that myself at some point

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-04 00:51:51

I want to try it in real hardware so I can try things like wifi and USB automounts and gvfs and all before I make a final assessment. But alas, I am at the beach next week.

But from the "trying stuff in the VM" perspective, slapping BL on Devuan seems to just work.

Sector11 · 2017-06-04 02:48:43

Good luck Devuan.

And so as not to derail this thread.

bigbenaugust · 2017-06-21 17:44:10

I am currently doing the thing to my Acer Aspire One. Devuan Jessie (encrypted disk, LXDE) has been installed, BL repos added, and bunsen-meta-all is installing right now.

wicd did just fine, I might just keep it and run openconnect from the command line for VPN.

Sector11 · 2017-06-21 18:07:23

Devuan - Interesting, I have a Devuan DVD here, have not installed it, does it come with WICD I like wicd but prefer ceni or nothing as I am hardwired to the net (Cablemodem so DHCP is just fine).

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