Gummiboot is my favorite boot loader, mainly due to it loading the
kernel from the EFI partition and thus not requiring a third partition
for /boot when you use encrypted root.
I first became familiar with it on Arch Linux well after their switch
to systemd; but despite this project now being inte
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> My question is whether you or anyone else is willing to
> completely fork this software.
> To be dependable, this source code needs to be preserved, under a
> different name, and maintained completely separately from the thing
> called "Gummiboo
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 18/06/2015 17:23, Laurent Bercot a écrit :
>> Absolutely. Why enforce exclusion when you can have a choice ?
>> Make a "currently active" vs. "inactive" switch, I don't know the
>> Debian/Devuan terminology, and allow users to install both
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> I think anyone who wants to revisit Debian's current free/nonfree repo
> structure, or its stance wrt licensing, should get their desired changes
> merged into Debian itself. Then, and only then, should Devuan consider them.
I personally t
I've successfully made an installer image, practically usable through
non-optical drives only, for amd64-compatible (U)EFI computers!
Download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1OGj4xwAe9_YjBBeF84NTk4Wms/view?usp=sharing
Installation: decompress then dd, or maybe `zcat [...].img.gz >
/dev/sdb`
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Daniel Reurich wrote:
> What's the problem with UEFI computers booting? I'd be keen to fix the
> installer or related packages to make it work properly...
Well, the official installer image from the downloads page is simply
built without EFI support, unlike Debian
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:29 AM, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:59:51AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote:
>> nano -> vim
> I believe it's not time for changes in the defaults. The first thing I
> do on fresh installs is to pull in vim and emacs, make one of them the
> default editor and rem
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Dave Turner
wrote:
> Are there any instructions on how to use the devuan-baseconf.deb?
Never used it, but AFAIHeard you simply install it, update (and check
if it correctly disabled all Debian (?) repos) , dist-upgrade!
> I have an old iMac
> Booting the iMac fr
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> As for desktop environment, I assume the option of having none will remain.
> With all this talk of xfce, I hope those who use none will be accommodated.
Extrememly likely -- the current installer (since Debian jessie alpha
1 ?), which we ar
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:40 PM, Anto wrote:
> In vi I use 10yy and then p to copy and paste 10 lines. And I use 10dd to
> delete 10 lines and press u to undo that if I mistakenly deleted the wrong
> lines.
> What are the equivalent commands for that in nano?
>
ctrl+k cuts a line.
If you immedia
A little shortcut from the extreme basics I know of vi:
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
> 6) Type the following, followed by hitting , in order to save
> and quit:
>
> :wq
ZZ (uppercase) saves and quits, no questions asked!
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:34:08PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
>>"M-" stands for "hold ALT.
>
> And if you don't have an ALT key, press and release escape, then type
> the letter that was supposed too be alted.
>
Will someone please do "irssi for
I had JUST used Android adb as superuser so I thought for some reason
adb faithfully recreated the folder structure, but after seeing the
contents of a mysterious /data/ folder appearing in my root, it
quickly became clear any accidental human error isn't mine (not
pointing fingers at anyone, let's
apt-get build-essential aptitude
apt-get source aptitude
cd aptitude-0.6.11
$EDITOR src/cmdline/cmdline_changelog.cc:341 src/view_changelog.cc:410
→ Change to [...] Origin(), "Devuan") [...]
$EDITOR src/gtk/changelog.cc
→ There's another "Debian" to change to "Devuan", but I didn't note
the line
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Dave Turner
wrote:
> various XFCE irritations for normal people made me do a full debian jessie
> install with systemd and all. I s wish I hadn't!
> XFCE doesn't work at all.
Devuan Testing installs systemd by default, but it's easy to remove
without breaking
Il 13/ago/2015 06:55 PM, "aitor_czr" ha scritto:
> libcupsimage2 : Depende: libcups2 (= 1.7.5-11) pero 1.7.5-11+deb8u1 va a
ser instalado
Does Debian have the same problem? Last time I used my computer about a
week ago I fully updated Devuan Ascii with no issue, but the version
numbers suggest th
Il 13/ago/2015 07:01 PM, "Haines Brown" ha scritto:
> Nevertheless, in spite of that when I reboot I'm taken to a graphical
> log in screen and then to some kind of desktop environment. Xfce4 is not
> installed.
>
> What is this environment (it has a chartreuse background), and how do I
> get rid
Il 13/ago/2015 07:04 PM, "aitor_czr" ha scritto:
>
> I don't know, i'm in devuan jessie :)
Looks like you don't have the Debian Security repos enabled (deb
http://security.debian.org/ jessie-updates main #contrib non-free), which
at the moment don't have a Devuan equivalent for all I know
Yes, t
Il 13/ago/2015 09:16 PM, "Haines Brown" ha scritto:
> However, # which xfce4-power-manager tells me it is in /usr/bin.
The next step would be ‘dpkg -S /usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager’ to check if
it belongs to some weird package...
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Il 13/ago/2015 09:48 PM, "Haines Brown" ha scritto:
> # which xfce4-power-manager
> /usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager
>
> # dpkg -S /usr/bin/xfce4-power-manager
> dpkg-querry: no path found matching patter /usr/bin/xcfe4-power-manager
So it's not in a package...
Unless you installed over an existing r
Il 13/ago/2015 10:21 PM, "Haines Brown" ha scritto:
> I guess I'll just try to reinstall. I initially tried to install
> testing/ascii, but couldn't complete install software. So I retreated to
> jessie, and had the same problem, but after choosing not to install CUPS
> (and no desktop manager), I
Il 15/ago/2015 03:05 PM, "Hendrik Boom" ha scritto:
> There are still a few systemd-related packages iinstalled:
>
> libpam-systemd
> systemd
> systemd-shim
> libsystemd0
> Is this normal?
Yes (for now), and you can easily remove all of them, except libsystemd0,
with no issues
If you use the ver
Il 18/ago/2015 12:53 AM, "Gregory Nowak" ha scritto:
> As I described in another thread earlier, I tried doing an aptitude
> search sysv on a fresh install of debian jessie, and got back no
> results. Either I was doing something wrong, or it sounds like
> sysvinit-core is back in sid, which is go
Il 08/ago/2015 04:12 PM, "Miles Fidelman" ha
scritto:
> I thought a primary motivation for Devuan was to NOT install systemd by
default.
It's a work in progress, and testing currently gets less effort than
stable, but is actually more friendly to the anti-systemd cause for XFCE
users (which is De
Il 22/ago/2015 10:40 AM, "aitor_czr" ha scritto:
> the resulting packages were all empty! This was due to the fact that the
latest release is located in /usr/local, so i had to comment with some
lines in the dh_usrlocal script
Well, packages are not supposed to put anything in /usr/local (so it c
Il 24/ago/2015 09:50 AM, "iguleder" ha scritto:
>
> AFAIK pm-utils should be enough, but make sure you restart Xfce.
>
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:22:31 +0300 Edward Bartolo
wrote
>>
>> If that is the case, how do I get the 'suspend' and 'hibernate'
>> buttons? I have pm-utils installed an
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Is libpam-systemd needed by devuan? Because that's the only package
> I have installed that would be broken by removing systemd itself.
>
> Since it appears to have something do do with authentication, I'm
> concerned that I may not be able t
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I Have a lock screen/suspend/shutdown/logout menu on the right end of the top
> icon panel. Only the 'switch user' item is greyed out.
>
> From my own account, which was copied from Debian Jessie, I have
> only a logout icon.
>
> So it looks
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> So I'd like to use a different kernel, but there are no alternatives in
> the devuan repository. How then should I install an alternative kernel?
You can compile one yourself:
→ Install the build tools ("build-essential" + "libncurses5-dev")
Il 26/set/2015 20:54, "Hendrik Boom" ha scritto:
> I looked for a netman package in aptitude; it doesn't seem to be around
> in jessie yet. Should I look in ascii or ceres? Or aren't we at that
> stage yet?
Good question, but there are none right now AFAIK!
> Is ascii generally as reliable as
Il 04/ott/2015 02:28 PM, "Hendrik Boom" ha scritto:
>
> When running aptitude in interactive mode, I opened the "Security
Updates" section and the "devel" section
> and found the "main" section was describbed as "The main Debian archive".
Well, to nitpick most packages are still unmodified Debia
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Obtaining a driver from Brother's support site as a .deb file, I tried to
> install it with dpkg:
>
> root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/Download/BrotherPrinterDriver# dpkg -i
> hl3170cdwlpr-1.1.2-1.i386.deb
As the name says, that's an LPR drive
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I installed lpr, and it did take a lot of cups off. Do I really need cups?
Nope, especially with a Brother that's very LPR-friendly!
As you found out, cups-bsd is just a port of LPR programs to CUPS.
> But I still don't know how to specify m
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 9:34 PM, aitor_czr wrote:
> Updated *.deb packages of netman.
A little nitpick: the Description: of those packages is formally
incorrect -- it should be an one-line short description followed by a
multiline one (indented with one space, and with a single dot for
blank lines
On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 05/10/2015 18:54, Rainer Weikusat a écrit :
> Yes, changing the MAC address of a real network interface can be done to fool
> a DHCP server (I don't see any other reason),
> but this is done in user space, after the kernel has registered it.
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015 13:52:36 +0200
Edward Bartolo wrote:
> I need to get the unprivileged user home directory path. Does anyone know of
> a solution?
Can you pass the user's name or UID to the backend in some way?
If yes, this command could probably be adapted (credits:
http://www.unix.com/unix
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:26:07 +0100
Dave Turner wrote:
> [...] start with debian 6 squeeze because that is the latest version that
> will boot from CD.
> Do a minimal install without X11 because then you need to upgrade to debian 7
> wheezy,
> and then do the same again to get to debian 8 jessie.
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 22:29:30 -0300
edinaldo wrote:
> I come to ask how the issue of security is treated as not seen (or found)
> something equivalent to repos:
> "deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free"
A clean install (of Devuan jessie) has that repo enabled.
Howe
On November 23, 2015 6:37:59 PM GMT+01:00, Eloy Espinaco
wrote:
>
>How should I handle this? I can force the instalation and I think that it will
>work anyway, but it is too manual. Is there anything I'm missing here?
Devuan basically works on a blacklist system, where some packages don't com
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Joel Roth wrote:
> I installed devuan following dev1fanboy's guide and ended up with an amd64
> kernel and i386 package binaries.
>
> First of all, I'm curious if those choices are explicit in the installer.
> (I thought had I asked for amd64.)
Nope! The 64 bit i
On November 27, 2015 1:44:00 PM GMT+01:00, "Rainer H. Rauschenberg"
wrote:
>Will this really work? AFAIR Raspbian was created because of the
>specific
>Arm-processor/Soc that Raspeberry Pi uses, which doesn't suit armhf as
>well as armel, so many programms have to be recompiled.
Yes, on a Pi
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