Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 06:36:37 +0800 Robert Storey wrote: > Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. > > Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long > ago when it became obvious that it would effectively dump his beloved > Hurd project into the trash can. If he

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 16:00:40 -0500 "T.J. Duchene" wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Didier Kryn [mailto:k...@in2p3.fr] > > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:04 AM > > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > > Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied? > > > > We

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Olson
> On March 21, 2015 at 6:36 PM Robert Storey wrote: > > Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. > > Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long ago > when it became obvious that it would effectively dump his beloved Hurd > project into the trash can. If he r

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Olson
> On March 21, 2015 at 12:25 PM Miles Fidelman > wrote: > Perhaps it's time to add something along the lines of "the freedom to > install software without it taking over your machine" (obviously this > needs work, or we'd it would eliminate things like the kernel, file > system, etc.). > > Miles

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Jude Nelson
> The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the least > common denominator for everything. That flat out stops progress. This is simply not true. A key hallmark of good application design is to keep the business logic as decoupled as possible from the layers beneath it, thereby enab

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Olson
> On March 21, 2015 at 11:34 AM Jaromil wrote: > > re all, > > perhaps interesting to perceive the atmosphere, no trolling intended and > please > consider we shall not fight, rather seek undersanding and claim respect and > the > right to have different opinions than "the majority". > > At Lib

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 01:42:33 devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Joerg Reisenweber - > reisenwe...@web.de > > wrote: > > Besides me for one not liking the idea to *get* *forced* to use btrfs for > > /, > The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread devuan . kn
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Joerg Reisenweber - reisenwe...@web.de wrote: > Besides me for one not liking the idea to *get* *forced* to use btrfs for /, The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the least common denominator for everything. That flat out stops progress. > my li

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 01:15:18 devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: > Hi Jörg, > > I am going to get beaten for this, but that proposal is actually > brilliant! Well, brilliant if you are not bothered by btrfs that is:-) > But that is what I got backups for. Besides me for one not liking the idea to *

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread devuan . kn
Hi Jörg, I am going to get beaten for this, but that proposal is actually brilliant! Well, brilliant if you are not bothered by btrfs that is:-) But that is what I got backups for. While I do not care about all the sandboxing that got mixed into this, the rest got me really thinking about my setu

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 00:40:45 Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > kills the Linux FOSS ecosystem now, This time read ecosystem as "economic system". The "ecologic system" aka "community" is probably still fine. RH just establishes the new better economic system: http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
>> [...all...] Sounds familiar? It's because developing and earning money >> on support only will always lead to such pathologies. [...] Full ACK Internet and downloading complete distros (for free) kills the Linux FOSS ecosystem now, like downloading mp3 music did kill the music ecosystem. Suse

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
RMS stance is understandable, because he is also responsible for the current situation. He failed to predict it, and his dream is now turning into another Animal Farm, where some developers are becoming more equal than others (it's an open question if there was a better strategy possible when GPL w

[Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Robert Storey
Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long ago when it became obvious that it would effectively dump his beloved Hurd project into the trash can. If he really called someone a "troll" for asking his opinion of systemd,

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 04:31:31PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > That is, prioritizing rather than excluding. So we can still, for > example, keep the linux kernel. :) The kernel is replaceable. Don't forget about kfreebsd (ok, hurd's state is a bad joke). Of course, the pro-systemd party has

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread T.J. Duchene
> -Original Message- > From: Didier Kryn [mailto:k...@in2p3.fr] > Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 11:04 AM > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied? > > We all agree that Devuan was born to be systemd-free and this looks like > a >

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 03:56:01PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > I think what we're after is a way to accept/reject software based on a > well-defined set of acceptance criteria. It sounds like we're trying to > say that the mission statement of Devuan is something like "Devuan > prioritizes the inc

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Jude Nelson
I think what we're after is a way to accept/reject software based on a well-defined set of acceptance criteria. It sounds like we're trying to say that the mission statement of Devuan is something like "Devuan prioritizes the inclusion of Free Software that follows the Unix software design philoso

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 17:04:00 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > However, the long term policy of Devuan can't be "We hate > systemd and Lennart Poetering". Instead Devuan should advertize the > reasons to reject software like systemd, in the form of a set of > rules for acceptability, in a sensible

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Lars Noodén
On 21.03.2015 18:51, Linuxito wrote: > Great reading. I knew RMS would answer something like that to that > question, if it's licensed under GPL, it's free software, period. ( Actually it's LGPL [1] but ... ) I expect that he is thinking about it and will be thinking about it a while longer befor

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Go Linux
On Sat, 3/21/15, Miles Fidelman wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied? To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Saturday, March 21, 2015, 11:25 AM Didier Kryn wrote: > We all agree that Devuan was born to be systemd-free and this > looks like a sustainable goal to

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Linuxito
Great reading. I knew RMS would answer something like that to that question, if it's licensed under GPL, it's free software, period. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Nextime wrote: > On March 21, 2015 3:34:28 PM WET, Jaromil wrote: > > > >re all, > > > >perhaps interesting to perceive the atmo

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Didier Kryn wrote: We all agree that Devuan was born to be systemd-free and this looks like a sustainable goal to begin with. But I understood this thread started with questioning the long term policy. For sure, if one wants systemd, this one should install Debian, or RH. Also, to all

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Didier Kryn
We all agree that Devuan was born to be systemd-free and this looks like a sustainable goal to begin with. But I understood this thread started with questioning the long term policy. For sure, if one wants systemd, this one should install Debian, or RH. Also, to all of us, anybody tryi

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Nextime
On March 21, 2015 3:34:28 PM WET, Jaromil wrote: > >re all, > >perhaps interesting to perceive the atmosphere, no trolling intended >and please >consider we shall not fight, rather seek undersanding and claim respect >and the >right to have different opinions than "the majority". > >At Libreplanet

[Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Jaromil
re all, perhaps interesting to perceive the atmosphere, no trolling intended and please consider we shall not fight, rather seek undersanding and claim respect and the right to have different opinions than "the majority". At Libreplanet (the GNU/FSF conference) today someone (who?? thanks for th

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 03:33:20AM +0100, Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > On Fri 20 March 2015 22:09:20 Joerg Reisenweber wrote: > > for details on how all this works on apt level with the devuan overlay over > > debian, you rather ask nextime. > > Rather first look here: > https://git.devuan.org/dev