[shrek]

You did good work.
It also compiles and installs on a rapsberry pi. 
I got "dietpi" underlying and installed it on top, works great, except xosview2, it doesn't compile.

Code:

g++-10 -Wall -Wextra -O2 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/home/dietpi/work/DVdist/DeskView/bin/Xosview/src/xosview2-2.3.1 -I/home/dietpi/work/DVdist/DeskView/bin/Xosview/src/xosview2-2.3.1/cmeter -I/home/dietpi/work/DVdist/DeskView/bin/Xosview/src/xosview2-2.3.1/linux -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c serialmeter.cc -o serialmeter.o
serialmeter.cc: In member function ‘void SerialMeter::getserial()’:
serialmeter.cc:73:25: error: ‘inb’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘int’?
   73 |     unsigned char lsr = inb(_port + UART_LSR);
      |                         ^~~
      |                         int
make[1]: *** [../Makefile.config:42: serialmeter.o] Fehler 1

The build script for Xosview is broken. Try building manually:

cd /opt/DeskView/bin/Xosview/src/xosview2-2.3.1
make clean
./configure
make -j4

This works for me on Devuan (64-bit ARMv8) on my Pi 3B. I noticed that your uname output says ARMv7 (32-bit?) so maybe there's a difference in some library or the compiler. You could also contact the developer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xosview/



New icons, color schemes and apps are in the works. I'm attaching a couple previews

[MrWeedster]

I just switched to devuan because it looks better, and it works great.
Now if we only could have better SBCs/ARM CPUs/systems.

[Raion]

Get a macchiatobin. It's not expensive.

[MrWeedster]

599$ is something i consider expensive
I got an odroid n2+ and debian/DeskView is running pretty good. Not to the point where you would consider it a desktop replacement, but it's usable.
Except some error with the volume manager and dbus. Something with "D-Bus is not built with -rdynamic", seems to be something from the debian distribution for the N2 i used.
Sadly there are no ready to use devuan images for the odroid available, but debian is ok

[shrek]

599$ is something i consider expensive
I got an odroid n2+ and debian/DeskView is running pretty good. Not to the point where you would consider it a desktop replacement, but it's usable.
Except some error with the volume manager and dbus. Something with "D-Bus is not built with -rdynamic", seems to be something from the debian distribution for the N2 i used.
Sadly there are no ready to use devuan images for the odroid available, but debian is ok

Can the Odroid boot from USB? A 64GB mSATA Dogfish SSD and Orico enclosure only set me back about $40 and really helps with desktop responsiveness. Web browsing on the Pi went from unusable to terrible.

[shrek]

I found an OpenGL port of the distort demo. I cleaned up the source for the UI a tiny bit and made a build script. Builds perfectly under Debian

[Shiunbird]

I found an OpenGL port of the distort demo. I cleaned up the source for the UI a tiny bit and made a build script. Builds perfectly under Debian

Wasn't the original distort OpenGL?

[jpstewart]

Wasn't the original distort OpenGL?

It might have been IRIS GL (ancestor of OpenGL) instead.

[bifo]

This project looks great, I'd love to run this on my Pinebook Pro as a lightweight desktop. Is this specifically aimed at debian development for the foreseeable future or will it be relatively distro independent with the correct dependencies? I ran debian with mate (what I'm used to) on my PBP for a few months after I got it but it crashed and I just switched back to the more supported Manjaro.

[Raion]

My understanding of his version of things is that while it's primarily designed for Debian there's nothing that prevents you or me from using it on whatever we please.

Just make sure that you have proper paths set up and are prepared to play with it. As I'm working with midnightbsd slowly on a more polish version which is going to have some differences, that might be more of a system ready version