Is the package systemd held back?

// meo

Im experiencing this. I seems to be a harware (CPU) issue that's patched in later linux kernels. Here comes a quote:

"Mitigations for RETBleed were patched into the Linux kernel at 5.18.14. Linux Lite uses 5.15. Honestly, it's not something the average user ought to worry about that much, but if your processor is affected, mitigations are available in all kernels 5.18 or newer."

So that seems to be the my problem with DSL in a nutshell. I have compiled a lot of kernels before, some time ago, would like to know what kernel I should aim for.

// meo

It has been a while since I last used DSL and when I saw this new release I figured I'd try reviving an old Toshiba Satellite A20 laptop. Speced with a P4 2.8GHz, 512MB ram, 55GB hard drive. And it works great. The default Fluxbox is excellent, but I decided I would install Awesome WM as I use that daily, and it is working beautifully.

My only problem is I can't seem to shutdown the computer from the login screen, I have no mouse cursor there and I'm not sure what keys to use.

BadWolf works well, can be a bit laggy, so going to try NetSurf. I tried loading Youtube but BadWolf freezes loading it. Of course I never expected to watch any videos on Youtube on this machine.

Here are some shots of Awesome WM on DSL with the excellent wallpaper that ships with DSL.

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1. After installing DSL, my screen resolution was only 800 x 600. Installing firmware-amd-graphics fixed the problem (I'm able to get my native resolution of 1280 x 720).

2. My Wifi uses the Broadcom BCM4313 driver. Connman shows that wifi is powered, but I'm unable to connect. Connman's "Wireless" window shows nothing. I can connect using AntiX. A method you suggested didn't help:

$ iwconfig
lo   no wireless extensions.
eth0    no wireless extensions.

$ ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

3. Many options in Control Centre seem to do nothing at all, e.g. Edit JWM, Set Date and Time, nothing appears under Drivers and Maintenance, etc. I don't know whether this is a bug or you simply haven't installed these functions yet.

4. I get this error after using apt (I get the same error with AntiX):

(desktop-menu:3532): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:34:59.859: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
Writing Menu: jwm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 477, in <module>
    build_menu()
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 313, in build_menu
    process_menu(menu)
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 219, in process_menu
    icon = find_icon(entry) or default_folder_icon
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/local/bin/desktop-menu", line 148, in find_icon
    if icon_theme.lookup_icon(appicon, icon_size, 0) and not no_gtk:
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lookup_icon'

5. Programs I installed (firefox-esr, libreoffice, etc.) don't appear in the menu; I tried using "Refresh Menu".

6. Anecdotal testing shows that DSL is just a little "lighter" than AntiX x64.

Still pounding on it.  Super-solid here so far (nice job and thanks!)--more machines to try.  Got a list going and I'll be back when I get it concise.  For now, questions:

1)  Is there anything in here that'll do screen dumps besides xwd (the format of which is ~low utility w/o convert from imagemagick). 
2)  Seeing feh and fbi for images...and mtpaint--is that it?

Thanks.  And thanks again for doing it at all--this is deeply cool to have in 2024!

Tried to install Zoom today since it seems that the webcam on my laptop is ready to go. Zoom isn't part of the regular debian repository but it can be downloaded. So I installed the dependencies and then, as said, I tried to install it. Unfortunately it depends on several packages that are held back with the antix desktop metapackage. In other words it didn't work in the present environment. So I'll have to wait for the next version of dsl that probably will sort out a lot of the present snags.

// meo

I remember vividly how cool it was to run DSL entirely from RAM. So, that's a feature I would like to see in upcoming releases. That would be really nice and since the specs of the computers (even older ones) usually have sufficient RAM to be able to use that boot option I think many users would like it.

// meo

I did a bit of testing.  Before running an upgrade you will need to hold back the antiX package that will update the desktop application defaults.  If not it will override the default terminal, browser and editor so those menu items will not work any longer.  It will override without checking what is installed.

To avoid this open up a terminal and paste in this command:
sudo apt-mark hold desktop-defaults-antix

In the next alpha release I will make sure this is already taken care of.

I have installed DSL on a 64Gb USB on SONY VAIO VGN SR290J purchased on the Year 2010.  
DSL is working fine and fast enough.
Initial boot time is quite high even upto 10 Min.

I have a issue only after upgrade. The GUI termianl is missing after upgrade.

I had to re install DSL just to retain my terminal in GUI mode.

man command is available for limited (but useful) commands.

info command is missing, but not much of an issue on ALPHA mode of the OS

Did anyone else faced any similar issue, afer update / upgrade

Any response is appreciated

You need to get isohybrid on the system that you are going to use to make your USB pen.  

Steps:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install syslinux-utils
isohybrid dsl-2024.alpha.iso

After that, I just used the regular DD method outlined here:
https://linuxiac.com/how-to-create-boota...d-command/

I will have a script in the next alpha release of DSL 2024 that should do this for you.