On 22 April 2018 at 12:28, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 04/22/2018 10:43 AM, William Morder wrote: >> >> On Sunday 22 April 2018 10:33:13 Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 04/22/2018 03:26 AM, William Morder wrote: >>>> >>>> Right, I am trying to digest all this for when that day comes. But I >>>> think I may use that method for simply migrating to Devuan without >>>> reinstalling everything. There is a webpage somewhere that links from >>>> the >>>> Devuan pages. I can find it again, if anybody else out there is really >>>> interested. >>> >>> Here you go: >>> >>> https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrade-Install-Devuan/wikis/migrate-to-j >>> essie >>> >>> https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/migrate-to-jessie >>> >>> Cheers! >> >> Yup, that's it. I saved the page itself, but not the URL. Thanks for >> finding >> it. I have a feeling there will be others meeting us in Devuan Land >> someday >> in the near future. > > Here's some good news, jessie-backports now has spectre patched kernel. > 4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64 is patched, tested on AMD and Intel - Variant 1,2 and 3 > patched. > > Cheers! > -- > Jimmy Johnson > > Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 > Registered Linux User #380263 Hello, I installed Debian to an external SSD from the most recent iso image and started to follow the migration instructions (webpage link above). BUT BEWARE ... the command root@devuan:~# apt-get purge systemd systemd-shim offers to also remove most of the Devuan setup and make it unbootable ! (no bloody way, mate) So the setup still appears to have both Devuan and systemd. I wonder what to do in this case. - R --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting