Events that can attend after release (thx @adam-burns)

• https://www.superbooth.com/en/

update the live-cd installer of refracta to support new initramfs changes dealing with microcode

repos

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/refractainstaller-base
https://git.devuan.org/devuan/refractainstaller-gui

dracut initramfs microcode

• https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/a62e895db9510f0fc4c47ee81b1436096eca4d64/dracut-functions.sh#L757
• https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/f32e95bcadbc5158843530407adc1e7b700561b1/dracut.sh#L2115

Under dyneIV-20240116.iso image, Settings application page reports error:

Could not load plugin from kcm_ssl: The shared library was not found.

Possible reasons:
- An error occurred during your last system upgrade, leaving an orphaned control module behind
- You have old third party modules lying around.
check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager.

On (working) vanilla Devuan Daedalus system:

$ dpkg -S kcm_ssl.so
libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kcm_ssl.so

On dynebolic image:

$ dpkg -S kcm_ssl.so
dpkg_-query: no path found matching pattern *kcm_ssl.so*

Note that
$ apt install libkf5kdelibs4support5-bin
fixes the systemsettings page, but I'm not yet sure that just installing this package is sufficient to ensure working ssl preference changes (ie there may be a better 'root cause' kde package that pulls in this package as dependency).

Under dyneIV-20240116.iso image, default user dyne has no access to use ping over network interfaces, ie.

dyne@dynebolic:~$ ping dyne.org
ping: socktype: SOCK_RAW
ping: socket: Operation not permitted
ping: => missing cap_net_raw+p capability or setuid?

Possible run time fix:

echo 'net.ipv4.ping_group_range = 0 2147483647' > /etc/sysctl.d/99-user-ping.conf
sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-user-ping.conf

However, TBH, this could be best solved at build time, as some non-root system processes use ICMP ping to check availability of network resources (eg. NetworkManager, etc).

Need some experienced audio setup based on pipewire or alsa + jack, something usable in most common situations and keeping in mind that we cannot ship with a low latency patched kernel for now.

dyne:bolic is a lot about the community and usually people in it have a lot to share, both visually and audio, not always as video...

This may be a good approach instead of a forum: a fediverse Instagram https://pixelfed.org/

Also a forum with discus + mailinglist support

Perhaps not host our own but make friends with some hosted instance.... we must keep low the overheads in administration

Customize a Plymouth theme to show a d:b rotating logo animation while waiting for boot.

Should be easy with a little bit of python knowledge. Docs are linked here https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Plymouth/Theme_creation

here a list of cool apps from avlinux distro

Alsamixer (mixer for the Alsa sound server)
Ardour (digital audio workstation)
Audacity (audio recorder and editor)
Avidmux (video editor)
Cinelerra-GG (video editor)
guitarix (mono amplifier simulation)
HandBrake (video transcoder)
Harrison Consoles Mixbus 32c (digital audio workstation)
Helm (polyphonic synth)
Hydrogen (drum sequencer)
Kdenlive (video editor)
Musescore 3 (create and edit music scores)
OBS Studio (streaming/recording software)
Reaper 6 (digital audio workstation) closed source
Sitala (drum sampler)
VLC media player (multimedia player)

some more:
https://lsp-plug.in/
https://github.com/free-sm/geonkick
https://github.com/moddevices/mda-lv2
https://kx.studio/Applications:Carla
https://blender.org
http://ffado.org/
https://jackaudio.org/
https://mixxx.org/
https://github.com/ovenwerks/studio-controls
https://sourceforge.net/projects/kid3/files/kid3/development/

Tools for the initial ISO build - also sources of inspiration for refracta fixes

• https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/mmdebstrap/
• https://documentation.suse.com/appliance/kiwi-9/html/kiwi/building-types.html
• https://osinside.github.io/kiwi/

Dynebolic 3.0.0 -beta:
Package: cron (pre-installed);

File: "/usr/share/doc/cron/copyright" which contains the licensing to many files in cron says that the example crontab2english.pl is licensed under the Artistic license, which is a nonfree license.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ArtisticLicense

From: /usr/share/doc/cron/copyright:
"Files: debian/examples/crontab2english.pl
Copyright: 2001, Sean M. Burke
License: Artistic"

Once ready, make sure the WikiPedia page is a jour
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyne:bolic

Ideas:
Link to many other cool Wikipedia pages (like this one) to follow up on engagement campaign.

Is there something to facilitate install of flatpak packages from web?? seems like a url handler is missing?

Rustdesk: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/505908/forwarding-an-entire-desktop-over-ssh-without-third-party-tools

also enable use of Xnest over ssh

Hello,

This is a freedom issue. Hosting a free software project on github, which requires nonfree javascript, is a moral compromise no one should make, and in fact will effectively deter the participation of contribution and bug reports (because you need an account to submit new issue, etc.). Furthermore, copilot will proprietarize free software, especially they don't care about GPL violation.

Please see here and (here)[https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/]

Free replacement exists, like Codeberg.org (100% free javascript, under review by GNU), essentially a github clone with a free-software-oriented philosophy. The underlying forgejo software is available for anyone to self-host. Ad: In fact, I myself host one, and it's available for public use (forgejo.jing.rocks).

We need to add scripts to the SDK to download and archive all source packages installed, to provide sources of the whole system at least on request (bulk download) to comply with the 100% free claim.