On 2018-12-12 09:22, KatolaZ wrote:
And please find below a more detailed explanation on the motivations
behind each image:
- netinst exist because it's the preferred way of installing minimal
systems and servers;
- the install DVD ISO exists because there are many users asking for a
single medium that they can download once and install many times
(e.g., due to bandwidth restrictions), and supports more than just
XFCE;
- the 3-cdrom set exists because we had many users asking for a
smaller footprint (again, bandwidth is not cheap everywhere) set of
images that they could use to install offline with a minimal XFCE
desktop;
- desktop-live exists because many people asked for a live Devuan
version which could be easily tried and installed. This is also the
preferred Devuan flavour used in reviews;
- minimal-live was thought as a recovery tool and has a specific focus
on accessibility (especially regarding visually-impaired and blind
users), and provides a full-featured console-based setup;
- so many embedded images exist because ARM vendors have not agreed on
a common standard;
- qcow, vagrant, and vcox images exist because many Devuan users like
to have ready-to-use images for their VMs;
- on top of those, there are also the usual mini.iso and netboot
images, although not advertised on files.devuan.org.
Quite likely, each single user would just prefer one of those images
and ask themselves "oh why on Earth there are so many, indeed?". I
actually use almost exclusively the mini.iso or the netboot
images.
The answer is that there is no single Devuan user, and no single
Devuan use-case, as the statistics above confirm. What is perfect for
somebody, is dumb or useless for somebody else, and vice-versa. The
whole point is to make an effort to look at the bigger picture:
Since Devuan is one of the few dpkg-based systemd-free distributions
around, we have the *obligation* to cater for as many use cases as
possible.
HTH
KatolaZ
There is already a page on the website that covers much of this
material: https://devuan.org/os/install
It is already the very first link on the Download page in this section:
Getting started
Short install instructions for various platforms <<<
Comprehensive upgrade and installation guides on dev1fanboy’s wiki
Devuan ASCII release notes to help with the upgrade
Perhaps a slight rewrite of that page and higher visibility - top of the
page and big red letters -
would suffice?
golinux
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