I've installed devuan beta from the amd64 netinstall and DVD, and from the i386 CD, and in all cases, when I got to the tasksel window, there was a checkbox for default devuan desktop followed by a list of desktop environments to choose. I chose xfce in all cases. Do the other choices not work?
For a lighter-weight network manager, search this list for discussions of simple netaid. I don't think it's in the repository yet, but I'm pretty sure it's available somewhere. You can get a newer kernel from devuan jessie backports repo, but be careful. The apt priority of backports is set as high as the main repo, so it's very easy to accidentally get a flood of packages from backports. Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list # Devuan Backports deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie-backports main Then run 'apt-get update'. Install the kernel you want. I see that 4.5.0 is available. Then remove the backports line from sources.list and run 'apt-get update' again. DO NOT run any kind of upgrade (apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade, or aptitude safe-upgrade or full-upgrade) while the backports repo is enabled. Note/Request for devuan devs: Can you please lower the apt-priority of backports? It's set to 990. In Debian, it's set to 100 to prevent accidental upgrade of all packages in backports. Thanks. -fsr On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 7:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Sat, 14 May 2016 05:28:42 +0000 > schrieb Irrwahn <[email protected]> > > Sounds reasonable to mention the default desktop flavor. It > > really doesn't already? (I didn't pay attention last time I > > installed.) > > No. When it comes to choose the software to install, it says Devuan > default desktop (i should have known, eventually, but i didn't ;) > > > > > 2) I love it's using slim (and not lightdm) as default login > > > manager. > > > > However, there are problems with SLiM. Foremost, the project seems > > to be abandoned. So I'd expect it to be replaced in future Devuan > > releases. BTW, I've been using lightdm for years and it never really > > let me down, save some cosmetic issues. YMMV, etc. pp. > > I find the configuration of lightdm ugly (configure a greeter here, > the login there etc. pp.). One simple conf in etc, that's it or should > it be. Preferrable then, imho, lxdm (although it seems to have problems > with policykit (??) ). > > > > 3) May be for wireless there could be used some wpa_supplicant based > > > tool (like ceni e.g.)? In any case wicd is way better and less > > > intrusive than nm. > > > > IIRC Devuan even has its own GUI wrapper for wpa_supplicant. As I > > am fine with just wpa_supplicant or wpa_gui myself, I never used > > that tool and unfortunately cannot locate the package for it ATM. > > I'd be interested in. In the end, i find the configuration via > wpa_supplicant is simpler. May be i'll try to "migrate" on my own the > nice script from tinycorelinux. But anyway, which would be the Devuan > wrapper? I'm aware there is wpa_gui (but it's qt based so, in a gtk > environment it pulls lots of dependencies, i'm afraid ... > > > Devuan Jessie is in sync with Debian Jessie, so you will get the > > same version general purpose kernel as in Debian. You can get a > > more recent version from e.g. Devuan testing, codename Ascii. > > On a personal note: IMHO, as long as nothing is seriously broken, > > there is no need to closely follow kernel updates (modulo security > > fixes, of course). FWIW, I am running Devuan Ascii with a 3.16 > > kernel and an 1.17 Xorg to keep the ... um ... "fine" AMD > > proprietary drivers working. (Inb4 others commenting on that last > > bit: No, the free drivers don't cut it, in my case at least.) > > That's interesting: I had the same strategy as long as i used > slackware, but it seems modern kernels work well with catalyst (at > least Manjaro 16.06 OpenRC does. Void too, boots fine (they come with > kernel 4.4 or even, Void, with kernel 4.5). The case of Void is > interesting because it does not offer automatically the non-free driver > and never make the machine going crazily hot like the Devuan installer > does. > > I was unable to install from the installer usb, because the machine > always stopped because overheated (> 90°!!!!). In the end i had the - > good, but doubtful idea to put the samsung on a box with crashed ice > and voilà ... I do not know, why, but there seem something in the > Devuan (Debian) installer routines which is extremely cpu intense > (compared to the installers of other distros. With slackware that was > never ever a problem, during the installation i mean!). > > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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