On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:40:50PM +0200, emnin...@riseup.net wrote:
-- snip -- >> Recently, i followed, as a silent lurker, a - german - dispute on >> systemd, where frequently intervened Martin Vaeth, who is - IMHO - a >> very reasonable person (author of several open-rc scripts for Gentoo. >> In my poor - and non technical -words, he sustained, that, considering >> the tendency of the systemd people to engulf more and more >> essential/critical processes of the basic boot-up of linux, in a near >> future only a distro like gentoo would have a chance to survive, since >> its process of building (emerge) allows, to avoid the systemd >> jabbawagga [1]. When i read that, i thought, the same should go for >> slackware - in the linux ecosystem (given that they resist to the >> systemd temptation, which seems to be the case ... (?) >> >> ---- >> >> 1] I remember a novel of H. P. Lovecraft where there is a monster, >> which, once it'll be awaken it would engulf all the world. I believe to >> remember its name was jabbawagga, but it's only a vague memory ... ;) > > Did some searches and found nothing relevant about jabbawagga. > > There wsa a being in Lovecraft's mythology with a similar rythmm to its name: > Tsathoggua > > But I don't recall anything about Tsathoggua engulfing the world. Jabbawagga sounds more like Jabberwock a creature from Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky which he later included in "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" where Alice slays the Jabberwock by cutting it's head off. In Tim Burton's 2010 film "Alice in Wonderland" I believe the creature was called a Jabberwocky if I remember correctly. For what its worth. Jim _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng