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Auteur: Simon Wise
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage
On 09/02/16 16:20, Go Linux wrote:
> On Mon, 2/8/16, Hendrik Boom<hendrik@???> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage
> To: dng@???
> Date: Monday, February 8, 2016, 10:47 PM
>
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 11:04:44AM +1100, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>  From a debian jessie 8.3 with gnome I did an upgrade to devuan, but I got many issues:
>>    - I had to remove manually systemd once rebooted
>>    - An apt autoremove actually did remove all gnome.

>>
>> Then from a desktop perspective, what should I expect to work? I'm targetting
>> usage level similar to gnome regarding network configuration, mounting of
>> removal medias and digital camera, etc etc...
>>
>> (Since I saw that gnome was basically removed, I did install xfce, but without
>> network since networkmanager is gone along with gnome)
>
> You could try easynetaid as soon as it's ready for devuan (conceived as
> netman a few months ago, and sopn to appear as a devuan package). At
> the moment you probably still need to compile it from source. It does
> not use systemd.
>
> I'm still using xfce on my devuan system, with wicd for my wifi
> manager.
>
>> I noticed too that no vdev were installed, expected?
>
> Vdev is still in its final stages of development, as far as I know.
> Running on developpment asd some test systems, but still being
> thorougly tested on corner cases before being introduced into Devuan.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
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>
> easynetaid was renamed this afternoon as per edbarx's post to #devuan:
>
> <edbarx> As suggested by Jaromil netman was renamed to simple-netaid. Changes pushed.


that is a really good choice, for jaromils reasons.

simon