On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 08:13:15PM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gastón via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I need to do
> > > is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade.
> > >
> > > Is this likely to go smoothly? If there are any problems I would probably
> > > not have Internet to ask for help.
> > >
> > > How does the upgrade get rid of systemd and everything associated with it?
> > > Or how does one do that?
> >
> > Migrate from Debian Jessie to Beowulf guide:
> > https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documentation/src/branch/master/dev1fanboy/en/jessie-to-beowulf.md
> >
> >
> Some question(s) on that.
> It would seem that gnome is important to Beowulf - - -yes?
> I have been running light weight desktops like LXMT (I think it was)
> and now LXQT
> after I found the KDE was just too weighty.
> So I'll start with that one question - - - - does Beowulf mean that I
> need to run Gnome?
>
> Regards

gnome is mentioned because it is the DE that is installed by default in
Debian. If you don't have it installed, you can skip that part