On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:13:15 -0600 o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM Gastón via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> > wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 02:36:36PM -0700, Fred wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I want to upgrade from Debian Jessie to Devuan. Apparently all I > > > need to do is change the sources list and do a dist-upgrade. > > > > > > Is this likely to go smoothly? If there are any problems I would > > > probably not have Internet to ask for help. > > > > > > How does the upgrade get rid of systemd and everything associated > > > with it? Or how does one do that? > > > > Migrate from Debian Jessie to Beowulf guide: > > https://git.devuan.org/devuan/documentation/src/branch/master/dev1fanboy/en/jessie-to-beowulf.md > > > > > Some question(s) on that. > It would seem that gnome is important to Beowulf - - -yes? > I have been running light weight desktops like LXMT (I think it was) > and now LXQT > after I found the KDE was just too weighty. > So I'll start with that one question - - - - does Beowulf mean that I > need to run Gnome? No. I'm running a custom installed Beowulf (started with a basic terminal system) with just a window manager (Openbox) and a single panel with menu (LXPanel). Works just fine. Lightweight, too. B _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
