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nadir

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## actual refracta feedback

Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:42 pm

I am having the look at the actual refracta (as far i can tell, i picked a link given in this forum, but can't find it anymore):
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:/home/user# cat etc/debian_version
8.0
and sources.list has devuan + the jessie security stuff.
dpkg -l | grep systemd is empty (no libsystemd0).
Short comment:
Looks really good.
I really like the look and feel and
the apps which are included.
RAM Usage is around 100MB, which probably is ok, sure is ok for me.
Sure something one can easily recommend (if, oh if, people would care about systemd at all ... )
Well done. Thanks.
PS: I found the link:
proto-refracta-jessie-with-sysvinit-t440-70.html#p5114
fsmithred

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## Re: actual refracta feedback

Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:17 pm

Thanks for the feedback. This is the jessie-sysv that I built last year. It started as minimal wheezy, excluded (pinned) all packages with systemd in the name, pinned some packages to wheezy versions, and upgraded the rest to debian jessie. That was released last December. For this release, I changed sources to devuan, unpinned all the wheezy versions, and upgraded it to devuan. It went very smoothly. There are outside repos that can be uncommented if you want to use them (angband and exegnu) in a file under sources.list.d.
There was also an amd64 build that started the same, but it never got finished and released. Well, I finished it and released it a few minutes ago. The first iso was too big, so I removed wireshark and zenmap for extra space.
It's with the other jessie isos, in the testing folder at sourceforge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/refracta/files/testing/
I still would like to make another xfce4 version, and I'm hoping to be able to do that without installing libsystemd0 and without using outside repos. Until then, we've got openbox and no-X isos to play with.
nadir

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## Re: actual refracta feedback

Sun Nov 29, 2015 9:30 pm

Probably makes sense trying to build xfce4 too.
But now that you say it: I guess that was my point. I have never been to happy with openbox, but this is a good setup. I like it (i have gone back to fluxbox, not sure why).
Salix and Gentoo both offer xfce without libsystemd0, so it should be possible. (?).
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