Hi all!
I just finished uploading the latest version of "darkness". Biggest changes:
- TDE 14.2-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre instaed of Xorg - new background images - kernel 6.16.8 - own repository for darkness-specific packages (ATM a package for the repo and the wallpapers)
Issues solved: - EFI installation on blank disk works now - TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack. - Crashes on Intel GM965/GL960 (Lenovo X61)
Download (I got myself a bigger webspace): - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso - https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928.iso.sha256
Some Images: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-0.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-1.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-2.png https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-3.png
All the new wallpapers: https://www.klepp.cn/darkness/iso/darkness-20250928-wallpapers.png
Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience ;)
Nik
Nice work. Best live TDE+X I have used. I run it live in a VM, it works so well live, I probably won't install.
thank you GregM
On Tuesday 30 September 2025 04:53:55 Greg Madden via tde-users wrote:
Nice work. Best live TDE+X I have used. I run it live in a VM, it works so well live, I probably won't install.
thank you GregM
Tried it in a VM too, bbots well and fast, but if I try an install, it asks me for a root password that I don't have. Did I miss someting?
Thierry
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 1 Oct 07:41:46 +0200 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit:
On Tuesday 30 September 2025 04:53:55 Greg Madden via tde-users wrote:
Nice work. Best live TDE+X I have used. I run it live in a VM, it works so well live, I probably won't install.
thank you GregM
Tried it in a VM too, bbots well and fast, but if I try an install, it asks me for a root password that I don't have. Did I miss someting?
OMG ... I missed my fish pills again ... passwords:
user/user root/toor
Nik
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On Wednesday 01 October 2025 08:16:46 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
OMG ... I missed my fish pills again ... passwords:
user/user root/toor
Nik
Thank you. I got the installer to work but, so far, the system does not boot. Seems to be based on Debian testing. I had never used that installer, somewhere it told me I'd be asked for the boot system, but I did not get that question. Neither with a GPT nor with an MBR hard drive. All this in VirtualBox, I did not try on a real PC.
The live system runs great.
Thierry
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 1 Oct 19:23:58 +0200 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit:
On Wednesday 01 October 2025 08:16:46 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
OMG ... I missed my fish pills again ... passwords:
user/user root/toor
Nik
Thank you. I got the installer to work but, so far, the system does not boot. Seems to be based on Debian testing. I had never used that installer, somewhere it told me I'd be asked for the boot system, but I did not get that question. Neither with a GPT nor with an MBR hard drive. All this in VirtualBox, I did not try on a real PC.
Hm ... let's see. Virtualbox is kind of picky, but I think you accidently skipped the bootloder installation, which is quite easy to miss. Refractainstaller asks you at some point if it should install the bootlader. If you skip that question and choose "Continue" it will not install the bootloader --> system will not boot. This is true for both EFI and legacy boot, but the messages are different. What also does not work is MSDOS partitioning scheme on EFI or GPT on legacy boot. I run VirtualBox 7.1.12 in legacy and EFI mode with the extension pack installed. And I alwaays start with a clean disk, e.g. issue a "blkdiscard" or "wipefs -a" first.
What happened to me more than once was that I tried to install the system into the EFI system partition and missed the error messag.
Anyway, if the bootloader was not installed you could either boot the installed system from the isos grub commandline - here for GPT where / is on 2. partition:
c set root=(hd0,2) linux /vmlinuz initrd /initrd.img boot
From the installed system reinstall grub-efi
With qemu things are easier: I just start with a sparse file e.g. "truncate -s 10G sda.img"
The live system runs great.
That's good :)
Nik
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On Wednesday 01 October 2025 21:48:01 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hm ... let's see. Virtualbox is kind of picky, but I think you accidently skipped the bootloder installation, which is quite easy to miss.
Yep, missed it - they could really make this choice more obvious. everything works now (and seems quite fast).
It's interresting how personal setttings are, your choices for the TDE settings are really not mine :)
But it's a great Debian + TDE install. Thank you very much.
Thierry
Anno domini 2025 Wed, 1 Oct 22:36:29 +0200 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users scripsit:
On Wednesday 01 October 2025 21:48:01 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Hm ... let's see. Virtualbox is kind of picky, but I think you accidently skipped the bootloder installation, which is quite easy to miss.
Yep, missed it - they could really make this choice more obvious. everything works now (and seems quite fast).
It's interresting how personal setttings are, your choices for the TDE settings are really not mine :)
That's what makes TDE so great :)
Nik
But it's a great Debian + TDE install. Thank you very much.
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Sources.list indicates a devuan repo. I used the refracta installer, I had past bad vibes about it, but it worked very well this time.
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