Dear Devuaners, a new release of the Unofficial Devuan Minimal Live Images is available. You get more or less the same stuff you had on the previous release, namely: minimal disk footprint (about 256 MB); minimal RAM requirements (64MB on i386, 74MB on amd64); a full-monty console desktop experience, with support for networking, personal productivity, multimedia, and games.
The major changes are listed below: - we have now a proper ANSI C compiler (tcc), libc6-dev, and manpages-dev. There has never been a proper unix system, however tiny, shipped without a C compiler... - I added debootstrap, which might be useful in many situations; - I added two boot options (nofb-toram and hires-toram) which load the squashfs into ram, if possibile. Thanks to jaromil and fsmithred for the suggestion; - I replaced mp3blaster (which apparently was not working properly in some cases) with moc; - I added a simple wpa_supplicant.conf file which should allow anybody with basic knowledge of wpa_cli to setup wifi network access without problems. As usual, you find the last images at: http://devuan.kalos.mine.nu I have personally tested the i386 image on an Atom-based 8-years-old netbook (1GB ram) for a few days, performing "routine" stuff (inlcuding some gaming), and it works absolutely fine. I am now working more on the accessibility side for the next release. I wrote a small (bash) daemon which provides audible feedback during system boot and shutdown (it is not yet installed in the current images), and I am working to provide an "accessible runlevel" which makes easier some configuration steps. I am also in contact with people in the [1] Linux-Speakup project, who are providing very useful feedback on this important aspect. The code I used to create the images can be downloaded from the gitlab page: https://git.devuan.org/KatolaZ/devuan-live-minimal As usual, comments, suggestions, and critics are welcome. HND KatolaZ [1] http://www.linux-speakup.org/speakup.html -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
