Hello:

On 19 Apr 2025 at 9:53, Daniel via Dng wrote:

> ... subbed on the list Friday and was quite pleased ...
Welcome. 8^)
Hope to see your contibutions.

Best,

A.









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.
>
> Favorite software tools (non-bbs): emacs, tmux, alpine, lynx,
> mplayer, sc,
> fbi, fbgs, xdg-open.
> Favorite smolnet protocols: nntp, finger, gopher, ftp.
>
> Long enough intro. It's tough talking about myself, but it always
> seems
> rude to join a list and join the conversation out of the blue.
>
> Always,
>
> Daniel
> Sysop - Air & Wave BBS
> bbs.airandwave.net
> ssh :: 2222 | telnet :: 2323
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