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## Re: Refracta-8 (Jessie) based on Devuan

Mon Aug 08, 2016 11:38 am

I see what you mean - localepurge is now behaving after I removed and reinstalled locales. Only the selected locales installed. And I got a few more megabytes out by removing the zh cruft.
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## Re: Refracta-8 (Jessie) based on Devuan

Tue Sep 13, 2016 8:00 pm

More than two years in the making,
And less than two years late,
I'd like to announce,
Refracta-8.
So far, just the i386. The isohybrid folder is in use again.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac ... isohybrid/
refracta8_xfce_i386-20160913_1822.iso
Thanks to all who helped make it possible - dzz, nadir, golinux, all those who have reported bugs or made suggestions, and especially to the Devuan team for making it possible to have a fully functional desktop in jessie without systemd.
figlfdev

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## Re: Refracta-8 (Jessie) based on Devuan

Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:31 am

> fsmithred wrote:More than two years in the making,
> And less than two years late,
> I'd like to announce,
> Refracta-8.

giant congrats on this, and on your distrowatch listing. already updated to use the new iso. love the kernel upgrade and the new size!
ive used a lot of live distros-- i used puppy, feather, dsl, tiny, slitaz, a ton of lightweight debians with many vintages of gnome and kde and other things-- i used a 100% free slax called "rms gnu/linux" once. ive used sugar on a stick and trisquel with sugar, from usb.
until refracta, i never had so much fun with a live distro as i did with puppy. and refracta is pretty solid and reliable so far-- at least as much as devuan. there are obvious self-serving reasons i could call refracta the best distro ever, but the fact is-- its the best live distro ive ever used. and i dont exactly love when a distro doesnt have a live version, so refracta and gnuinos are both doing devuan a huge favor. my experiences with gnuinos are very positive-- outshined only by refracta.
so truly: congrats. as for devuan, i know ive been complaining about it a lot lately, but i still dont go on a computer without some form of devuan. im well aware that refracta wouldnt be exactly the same without it. i dont use something like that for more than a year and a half unless its worth it.
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## Re: Refracta-8 (Jessie) based on Devuan

Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:19 pm

> figlfdev wrote:
> ive used a lot of live distros-- i used puppy, feather, dsl, tiny, slitaz, a ton of lightweight debians with many vintages of gnome and kde and other things--

Me too, Puppy was fun, just got way too bloated for me, I think the last one I tried recently had like a couple hundred menu entries, I think I counted like 6 different text editors...I liked Slitaz quite a bit, it was fun.

> figlfdev wrote: and i dont exactly love when a distro doesnt have a live version, so refracta and gnuinos are both doing devuan a huge favor.

Agree 110%, that's exactly what led me to Refracta, I almost didn't even install Devuan when I booted the CD the first time because there was no livecd option, glad I did though, and that's why i'm working on my little user-remasters, to give folks that option so they'll try it.
Ahh, my download is complete, off to try the new Refracta right now!
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