I started with Debian Squeeze on my desktop computer (since it was one of the few Linux distributions that would work with my hardware) and when it came time to update to Wheezy I did so by sneaker-net. I'd heard that Debian Jessie was out but I just didn't get around to trying to update my system again and from what I've been reading about the switch to systemd, I'm glad I didn't. I had been considering switching to file-rc or runit or busybox's init program (something less complex than sysvinit) not something more complex like systemd. I would like to try my sneaker-net process with Devuan instead of Debian and hope it will work in a similar fashion.
I download all my dependencies by sneaker-net and check them over before installing. I want to know exactly what's on my system. I'd probably be running a distribution like Slackware right now where the user handles the dependencies rather than the package manager, except that there were some hardware installation issues with getting it working with my desktop. I hope Devuan will be as friendly to people who use sneaker-net for installation as Debian has been in the past. My documentation on the techniques I use to sneaker-net and control what is installed on my system is at: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/snet.htm Hope the Devuan project is successful in providing an alternative to Debian that supplies applications that truly attempt to do one task well. I'm a C/C++ developer and I've also done documentation for a number of Open Source projects. I have several ports/modified versions of lightweight program alternatives. One of my goals is to eventually have a working desktop system that runs in framebuffer using mainly sdl, fltk and pdcurses/ncurses based applications. If I can help the project out with programming and/or documentation, I would certainly be interested in doing so. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
