From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 12/17/2025 5:06 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:05 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >>    https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=devuan   # Gets mostly   
   rid of SystemD, uses X11   
   >   
   > Not really something I would recommend for noobs.   
   >   
      
   I gave the Devuan6.00 Release a try. This is an installer, not a LiveDVD.   
      
      Name: devuan_excalibur_6.0.0_amd64_desktop.iso   
      Size: 4244701184 bytes (4048 MiB)   
      SHA256: FD9BEA571645CFD4FF1A71E66599E3FA6D03A5DB2E782273A6947BDAC3A3FFF6   
      
   Tried a DVD, which failed to complete   
   (the DVD gets ejected before the install completes, install hangs at "43%" as   
   a result).   
      
   Tried a USB stick, worked fine, although the installer   
   changed from a GUI thing they were working on, to a   
   legacy Debian installer people have likely seen before.   
      
       [Picture]  Devuan inxi output (XFCE default, MATE to go with "slim", then   
   GNOME)   
                  Needs the NVidia driver recipe next. For Jeff, this would be an   
   Intel recipe.   
      
        https://imgur.com/a/Mdh1hq2   
      
   The XFCE is the default tick box in the installer.   
   The MATE  package was "mate-desktop-environment" (so I could test that Slim   
   can select a DE).   
   The GNOME desktop was "gnome".   
      
   The disk is MSDOS partitioned (as I booted in Legacy mode as   
   an emulation of a slightly older computer). The first partition   
   was a SWAP partition, the second partition was / . The installed   
   file set isn't all that big, so using 100GB for slash, when   
   only 10GB or so of files were there, is a bit wasteful, but it   
   will fill up fast with usage and more packages (or DEs) added.   
      
   Haven't tried a UEFI with this hybrid USB key quite yet.   
      
   The project still requires that the HD4000 (Intel iGPU) have a driver.   
      
      Paul   
      
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