Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 17/11/14 11:08, Joe Neal wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been using Debian since the never-ending Sarge freeze. I've never > really used anything else. I presently depend on servers running Debian > to pay rent and put food on my table. > > The thing is, Debian seems to be self-destructing.

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-19 Thread Owen Dunn
Philip Hands writes: > Rhy Thornton writes: > ... >> More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human >> readable log files. > ... >> (to be fair, I haven't really >> looked into it yet. I'm busy with real work). > > I wonder why you feel qualified to comment. :-/ I don't t

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Russell Stuart
On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 14:10 -0800, Rhy Thornton wrote: > More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human > readable log files. As a full time sysadmin, I'm reading log files all > day, and I have to wonder what the reasoning behind this is (to be fair, > I haven't really look

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
To the original question - I'm thinking the Jessie is going to be Debian's equivalent of Microsoft Vista. I plan to stay on Wheezy as long as LTS lets me, and wait and see how things shake out. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Philip Hands
Rhy Thornton writes: ... > More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human > readable log files. ... > (to be fair, I haven't really > looked into it yet. I'm busy with real work). I wonder why you feel qualified to comment. :-/ I've only played briefly with systemd, and ev

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 02:10:49PM -0800, Rhy Thornton wrote: > More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human > readable log files. As a full time sysadmin, I'm reading log files There currently is a bug in Debian where your log messages aren't working. I forgot details, but

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Rhy Thornton writes: > More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human > readable log files. Hi Rhy, There is no truth to the rumor that systemd doesn't produce human-readable log files. In a recent discussion on debian-devel, we identified a bug in the current syslog-ng pac

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 14:10 -0800, Rhy Thornton wrote: > More concerning than that is that systemd won't be producing human > readable log files. As a full time sysadmin, I'm reading log files all > day, and I have to wonder what the reasoning behind this is (to be fair, > I haven't really look

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Rhy Thornton
I've got the same concerns. I'm also very concerned because apparently the systemd push may happen on servers I already built if I forgot to use Debian Stable, which I may have, because I've never had any issues previous with riding on the edge, and I like to provide feedback upstream where po

Re: Can I still depend on Debian?

2014-11-17 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Thanks for your mail Joe, On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 04:08:10AM -0600, Joe Neal wrote: > The thing is, Debian seems to be self-destructing. Can you blame me > for wondering if I should upgrade my servers to Jessie when the time > comes or migrate them to another distro entirely? As a user, I think