Autor: me Data: A: dng Assumpte: [DNG] Greetings, new here
Greetings -
Just subbed on the list Friday and was quite pleased to see the amount of
activity after only a few hours. I'm very new to the Devuan community.
Honestly, only recently learned of the project during the Lunduke podcast.
He had listed it as a recommended distro on a recent episode.
It came at a perfect time. The wife's laptop, a ten year old jobber I got
her for Christmas back then, failed to boot. The drive was corrupt. After
some success in repairing the filesystem, we managed to recover her data. A
few failed fresh installs of kubuntu (her preferred flavor) prompted a swap.
I installed the latest kubuntu on my much-newer laptop and I took her dead
laptop in exchange.
A new-old stock hdd went for almost nothing and a new aftermarket battery
made it newish again. Thought, what the hell, may as well try this new-to-me
distro called Devuan. Lunduke also recommended Open Mandriva, but I knew a
debian branch would include a minimal netinstall image, which is preferred.
And, having spent twenty years in the ubuntu/debian world, learning a new
distro didn't seem appealing.
So, here I am. This is a minimalist setup. The main workhorse computer in
the house is a headless pi 3b+. It runs stock raspberry pi os as does the
den computer, a pi500. The laptop and the pi500 are both used to ssh into
the 3b+ where 99% of my computing time is spent.
I'm a retro guy, preferring smolnet protocols and environments. I own and
operate a BBS called the Air & Wave BBS that runs on a debian vps. People
can often find me logged in MRC chat or on IRC in trivia channels. Avid
user of usenet as well, by way of emacs/gnus. Everything on a tmux window.
Alpine, lynx, syncterm, emacs, mplayer all in their own little panes.
Textmode is something I often advocate and will bore my colleagues about it
constantly.
All code is written in emacs and saved via tramp across the vps and tested.
Majority of my coding is dedicated to bbs functionality.
So far Devuan is impressive. It was the first time wireless connectivity
simply worked out of the box during netinstall and properly initialized
during boot.
The only snag was the braile subsystem that would hang during boot. Really
annoying. Took a bit to figure out how to disable it for good, since my
alteration in the grub menu didn't save.
That small annoyance wasn't enough to change my mind. I think yall captured
me, courtesy of Lunduke.
While ninety-nine percent of my linux time is in tty, it doesn't mean I'm a
wizard at the command line. I'm still learning. Things I learn as problems
are solved are easily forgotten if it isn't repeated.
The other one percent is in wayland on the pi500 if bills are needed or
other tasks that can't be solved in the cli.
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[DNG] Greetings, new here
