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Assumpte: Re: [DNG] Questions about migrating to Devuan
It seems that most of those are available on current stable (daedalus)

Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'm considering migrating to Devuan after years on Gentoo. Expect a
> weird mix of expert and newbie questions from me.
>
> 1) I'd prefer to keep using ICEWM window manager to take advantage of
> many years of "muscle memory". Is that possible?

icewm is at version 3.3.1-1.
>
> 2) I want some app to connect to my cellphone to download photos from it
> and upload music to it for playback. A simple "file-system" app will
> do, and I can upload/download with mc (Midnight commander).

Is there a question here?  This should be possible.  I use gmtp for this
task, the few times I do it.
>
> 3) My most-commonly-used-apps, in alphabetical order, follow. Are they
> available on Devuan? (Google-Chrome is not my "daily driver" but there
> seem to be some web sites that are "hardcoded" for it.)
>

abiword version 3.0.5~dfsg-3.2
dos2unix version 7.4.3-1

dosbox version 0.74-3-4+b1

exiftool
- this may have been replaced by libimage-exiftool-perl (?)
exiftool does not show a version table; when I try to install it, it
goes to libimage-exiftool-perl instead.  libimage-exiftool-perl is at
version 12.57+dfsg-1

fetchmail version 6.4.37-1
gcc version 4:12.2.0-3
geeqie version 1:2.0.1-8+b1
gimp version 2.10.34-1+deb12u2
gnumeric version 1.12.55-1

google-chrome
- unable to locate.

hibernate-script
- unable to locate.

imagemagick version 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.6+deb12u2
iptables version 1.8.9-2
mc version 3:4.8.29-2 (or 3:4.8.31-1~bpo12+1 in backports)
mpg123 version 1.31.2-1+deb12u1
mplayer version 2:1.5+svn38408-1
mupdf version 1.21.1+ds2-1+b4
mutt version 2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1 (with smtp capability via ssmtp) - don't
know.
procmail version 3.22-27

qemu
- no installable package named "qemu" but there are qemu-system,
qemu-user, qemu-utils and others

ssmtp version 2.64-11
vim version 2:9.0.1378-2
> 4) Any selections/tweaks required at install time to get those apps?

google-chrome can be installed by adding its prepository to apt sources
- I've done this on a different devuan machine.
> 5) How many gigabytes of swap suggested for a 16-gigabyte ram machine
> with "hibernate-script"?
>

idk anything about hibernate-script, it didn't show up in my apt
search.  Generally, when hibernating, you'll want a swap file/partition
at least the size of your installed ram.