On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:13:15 -0600
o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@???> 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?

No. I'm running a custom installed Beowulf (started with a basic
terminal system) with just a window manager (Openbox) and a single
panel with menu (LXPanel). Works just fine. Lightweight, too.

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