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Re: [trinity-users] network problems in Devuan Jessie-Beowulf merged

From: William Morder <doctor_contendo@...>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:10:22 -0700

On Thursday 21 June 2018 12:20:21 Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> On Thursday 21 of June 2018 11:35:47 William Morder wrote:
> > On Wed June 20 2018 07:23:07 William Morder wrote:
> > > I recently migrated from Debian Jessie to the Devuan Jessie-Beowulf
> > > merged version. My problem is, now I cannot turn off my network, nor
> > > control the connection at all. I was using the network-manager-tde
> > > package, which has always worked just fine for me. I've tried all the
> > > other network managers, and don't like how they behave. In
> > > particular, I want to set my network so that it never connects
> > > automatically, and will only connect manually.
> >
> > Devuan Jessie works well but is based on Debian Jessie which is moving
> > into LTS.
> >
> > Devuan Ascii works well and is based on Debian Stretch and is well
> > supported.
> >
> > Devuan Beowulf is in development based on Debian Buster in development.
> >
> > I don't know what you mean by "Devuan Jessie-Beowulf merged version".
> > I would not recommend Jessie as it is moving to LTS.  I would not
> > recommend Beowulf at this time except to bleeding edge users who are
> > comfortable fixing any problems they might encounter.  I would suggest
> > you start with a working Devuan Ascii before thinking about TDE PSB.
> >
> > --Mike
> >
> > Sorry, that's totally my mistake.
> >
> > I've been running Debian for about a year now, but I've only been
> > running Devuan for about a week. I am not familiar with what Devuan
> > names correspond to the naming in Debian. I know that Devuan Ascii
> > corresponds to Debian Stretch, and somewhere I thought I remembered
> > that Beowulf corresponded to Jessie. Apparently they did not change the
> > name for Jessie?
> >
> > At the time I was only sporadically online, had no list at hand to
> > check, and no browsers installed so that I could look it up online.
> >
> > In any case, I believe I have solved my network issues (or at least
> > found a workaround). There are some deeper issues that I will bring up
> > in another thread.
> >
> > Bill
>
> For Devuan Jessie, the name was identical to Debian, but with another
> meaning - it means minor planet Jessie (nr.10464).
>
> https://devuan.org/os/releases
> https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
>
> Cheers

A-ha! Slavek enlightens us all. 

Bill