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johnraff

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deadbang

Remember Head_on_a_Stick?

He's back online with what looks like an even more minimal openbox/tint2 desktop, "deadbang":
https://head_on_a_stick.srht.site/

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Re: deadbang

Remember Head_on_a_Stick?

He's back online with what looks like an even more minimal openbox/tint2 desktop, "deadbang":
https://head_on_a_stick.srht.site/

I really miss him!  Great friend.

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Re: deadbang

FWIW I found HOAS busy helping folks on the Arch Forum

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Re: deadbang

Thanks for the plug, johnraff :-)

Hello to you, S11 & manyroads, good to see you all.

deadbang is actually just SharpBang in a trenchcoat, not much has changed. The gritty details are on the downloads page.

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Re: deadbang

Thanks for the plug, johnraff :-)

Hello to you, S11 & manyroads, good to see you all.

deadbang is actually just SharpBang in a trenchcoat, not much has changed. The gritty details are on the downloads page.

Good to see you back around here HoaS...was wondering where you went :-)

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Re: deadbang

Thanks for the plug, johnraff :-)

Hello to you, S11 & manyroads, good to see you all.

OMG!! HoaS How the hell-o are you?

Missed you man.  Still speeding around town on a motorcycle?

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johnraff

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Re: deadbang

Good to see you HOAS!

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Still speeding around town on a motorcycle?

Oh yeah :-)

Dare I ask how the MIL is?

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Re: deadbang

Good catch @johnraff

Glad to see you back online @Head_on_a_Stick

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: deadbang

Hi altman, good to see you too

The 12.9 ISO image is now available from SourceForge. Well, the amd64 image is available now, the i386 version will be up once I've built it...

No changes for this version, it's just a refreshed image for the Debian 12.9 point release.

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johnraff

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Re: deadbang

@HOAS do you plan to make 32bit isos for Debian 13?
Now the Debian installer has dropped support it doesn't look easy...
No more 32bit kernels too, it looks like.

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I was planning to support i386 but today I learned the installer has dropped support

Oh dear, that's not good. I suppose Callamares should work, at least theoretically, but the ncurses installer is Debian, at least as far as I'm concerned.

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Re: deadbang

I'm still unsure whether BL will have any chance of shipping a 32bit Carbon installer. It's looking doubtful TBH.
The newest 32bit kernel is 6.10.11-1 on bookworm-backports.
https://packages.debian.org/search?suit … -image-686

I suppose we could wrangle something with the netinstall script - install 32bit Bookworm and upgrade it to Trixie, but it looks like hard work for a diminishing number of potential users.

I have a nice little 32bit laptop I'll be sorry to throw away though...

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Re: deadbang

I can't believe Debian is abandoning i386. Perhaps deadbang should move to an Alpine Linux base. I already know the distribution and it's packaging quite well.

The installer is the big issue though. I have no idea how Calamares works but I presume the debian-installer-launcher package would provide it in the live environment, and that might carry on working after the initramfs (boot menu) installer has been dropped.

EDIT: maybe I should ask my comrades over at the antiX forums about the i386 support there. They will be facing the same issues.

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Re: deadbang

You might also consider using PeppermintOS. I believe they offer i386 on both Devuan and Debian.

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Re: deadbang

Thanks for the suggestion Mark but I seem to remember exposing one of the PeppermintOS team to my (in)famous interpersonal skills over at the Devuan forums a while ago. I don't think they would welcome me into their family...

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Re: deadbang

Looks good!

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Thanks for the suggestion Mark but I seem to remember exposing one of the PeppermintOS team to my (in)famous interpersonal skills over at the Devuan forums a while ago. I don't think they would welcome me into their family...

Lol, been there, done that...not to any Peppermint folk, but I think i'm on Ralph's permanent s**tlist on the Devuan forum.

Downloaded deadbang, gonna check it out tonight, i'm a big fan of minimalism and Openbox-anything always gets my attention.

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Re: deadbang

Still speeding around town on a motorcycle?

Oh yeah :-)

Dare I ask how the MIL is?

Good to hear.

Alive and kicking but not here 100% mentally.

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johnraff

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Re: deadbang

I can't believe Debian is abandoning i386.

They've been talking about it for some time. At least a release ago.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-a … 00003.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … n_its_way/
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/s … ear-future

The kernel, installer and iso images will be gone, but the 32bit packages will still be around, so some back-alley installs might still work. I guess the lack of a kernel newer than Bookworm-backports is the biggest barrier.

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