On Monday 10 November 2025 10:26:53 William Morder wrote:
On Monday 10 November 2025 05:51:43 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
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... and when you are at it, use adecent kernel! I run Devuan ceres since ages and never had big issues. At least use excalibur as it's out now.
Nik
Okay, so I have been pondering an upgrade to Excalibur. After doing a bit of searching, it does seem to be an LTS release.
However, I also read about this new development, named usrmerge, for example: https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/excalibur-usrmerge-announce-2024-02-20.ht...
Note this part: "first ensure there is sufficient disk space to accomodate the merge"; by which I assume that they mean on my root partition. It shouldn't touch my home directory, I believe. (I hope!) On my root partition, nowadays I keep about 20 gb to spare, just for this kind of thing.
My home directory is rather cluttered with too much junk at the moment, and inconvenient to do a backup, but I can manage it, maybe over the weekend.
I wonder if this usrmerge was implemented earlier, when Excalibur was still in testing?
Bill