On 27.12.24 23:11, Walter Dnes wrote:

>   I'm considering migrating to Devuan after years on Gentoo.  Expect a

> weird mix of expert and newbie questions from me.

I have for a number of years and versions of Devuan used:

> fetchmail

> gcc             (Mostly avr-gcc & avr binutils)

> geeqie          (I've swapped to xzgv.)

$ apt-cache search geeqie

geeqie - image viewer using GTK+

geeqie-common - data files for Geeqie

> gimp            (It's there, but I can't drive it.)

> gnumeric

$ apt-cache search gnumeric

gir1.2-gnumeric - GObject introspection data for the Gnumeric spreadsheet

gnumeric - spreadsheet application for GNOME - main program

gnumeric-common - spreadsheet application for GNOME - common files

gnumeric-doc - spreadsheet application for GNOME - documentation

gnumeric-plugins-extra - spreadsheet application for GNOME - additional plugins

...

> mupdf           (My muscle-memory is xpdf, though.)

$ apt-cache search mupdf

libmupdf-dev - development files for the MuPDF viewer

mupdf - lightweight PDF viewer

mupdf-tools - command line tools for the MuPDF viewer

> mutt            (I use it with procmail & postfix.)

> procmail

...

> vim             (There's a law against not having it, ya know. ;)

>

> 4) Any selections/tweaks required at install time to get those apps?

On any distro, it's always been necessary to do half a dozen

"apt-get install xxx" after an "apt-cache search xxx" to browse

offerings, I find.

> 5) How many gigabytes of swap suggested for a 16-gigabyte ram machine

> with "hibernate-script"?

Despite more than three decades of *nix use, I'm not sure what hibernate

does, or how it could be useful. I either shut down or not. (Maybe more

defensible on 100% off-grid solar power?)

Has Gentoo gone to the dark side? (systemd)

Erik