First, thank you for the fork and excellent product and support. Now retired, from past experience I am cognizant of the work involved in what you have done and most appreciate it.
I have been running ASCII (clean install) for about 6 weeks on a core duo 4 primary cores (effectively 8 core) Intel. Mostly works fine with the following caveats: The X display managers all have problems. I found wdm, which is basically a friendlier xdm, the only reliable one. lxdm also works (mostly). This problem was not present with the system board graphics (Intel) but appeared with an Nvidia GT750 chip set PCiE card. Somehow, the older library necessary for Libreoffice disappeared. The only source I found with aptitude, was Nvidia's libraries, which also install a great deal of other trash. I installed the libraries and then edited the modules configuration (e.g., removed the blacklist nouveau files). Works fine now. Speaking of Libreoffice, their shell script assumes the location of their soft link (/usr/bin) and it will not work from anywhere else; I also fixed that by using absolute paths in the script. Many of the launchers for XFCE have the wrong location for the target. For example, the launcher for gparted has the binary in /usr/local/sbin, which is where it would install if one used a public download. The actual location Via apt-get is /usr/sbin, an ln -s fixed this and others. Many of the XFCE launchers use xdg-su rather then gksudo. xdg-su is an antique which disappeared during one of my updates and cleanup. I downloaded a copy from GIT and found that it was last updated in 2013 and is in fact an overly complex shell script that mostly is a front end to sudo. In addition, many of the launchers use a -c option, one that does not exist. I wrote my own Bash script to replace xdg-su rather than editing possibly hundreds of launchers. All of the problems are minor, at least from my perspective. The primary systems seem to work fine. Devuan and Slackware are the only main stream Linux alternatives to systemd inanity. Devuan, due to it being originally based on Debian, has a greater support universe. Had you not forked Debian, I would be back on one of the BSD's, my roots in Unix. -- William (Bill) Moss billm...@acm.org NY (USA) Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. by Lord Byron Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. by Benjamin Franklin Honor, justice and humanity forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them. by Thomas Jefferson Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking up Arms 6 July 1775 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
