Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread Jude Nelson
If I was able to understand correctly, vdev works with dbus. Vdev does not use dbus. No idea how or why you came to this conclusion. Search the code if you don't believe me. -Jude ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread miro . rovis
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:50:44AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: If I was able to understand correctly, vdev works with dbus. Vdev does not use dbus. No idea how or why you came to this conclusion. Search the code if you don't believe me. -Jude I believe you. You never appeared

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread tilt!
Hi, Oz Tiram wrote on 22/07/2015 at 10:00 CEST: One argument I hear often about systemd is that it more adapted to current hardware needs, [e.g. here][1] Computers changed so much that they often doesn’t even look like computers. And their operating systems are very busy : GPS, wireless

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
No, I have made the distupgrade release by release and checked, whether anything was working. And yes, from Etch to Lenny, Squeeze and Wheeze it was working. And then the nightmare came over me! Currently I install a Wheeze Workstation + Server around 3 GByte of installation will back it up and

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Konzack Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:17 PM Cc: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer No, I have made the distupgrade release by release and checked, whether anything was working.

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 16:57:55 +0200 Laurent Bercot ska-de...@skarnet.org wrote: On 22/07/2015 16:24, Isaac Dunham wrote: In general, I'd agree with you, but there are some situations where it's possible to argue for hotplugger/service manager integration: if you hotplug a scanner or

Re: [DNG] Ashley Madison hack

2015-07-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
You're forgetting SQL injection and XSS, to name a few. Wireshark in a cybercafé pops into mind too plus a gazillion of windows vulnerabilities. I'm placing no bets on Whether-or-not-it-was-systemd and find that discussion moot unless there's any solid details on the hack. Does Devuan keep up to

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of Michelle Konzack Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:55 PM To: dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer Hello *, 2015-07-22 3:07 GMT+02:00 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com: What is this about 'baroque init

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Mittwoch, 22. Juli 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: Pre-cisely! I don't have Lennart Poettering's coding skills or system wisdom, nor do I have the budget by which his team operates, but even I was able to put together the most challenging part of hotplugging, using inotifywait:

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:03:03 +0200 miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:50:44AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: If I was able to understand correctly, vdev works with dbus. Vdev does not use dbus. No idea how or why you came to this conclusion. Search the

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 22/07/2015 22:20, T.J. Duchene wrote: That said, the reality of the situation is quite different than it is in theory. As the old saying goes in the American Midwest: The proof is in the pudding. Until someone provides a systemd alternative that works better than systemd, yet provides

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
In general, I'd agree with you, but there are some situations where it's possible to argue for hotplugger/service manager integration: if you hotplug a scanner or printer, there's reason to think that the corresponding daemon (sane/cups/lprng/lpr) should start. Note that I did not say that I

[DNG] Please stop posting random links to hacked web sites

2015-07-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi! Okay, I tried to do this off list, but I now found the second occurence of this already: Please do not about every hacked web site you read about. Especially not a link to it. I bet there are tons of web sites hacked each day even if you don´t hear about every single one. And whether this

Re: [DNG] Ashley Madison hack

2015-07-22 Thread Ron
On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:01:17 -0700 James Powell james4...@hotmail.com wrote: It is to some extent, but remember, we now, on selected systems, have a universal interface layer, so we don't know if it was Brute Force SSH, or something else. Until the hackers say or reveal anything, we don't

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Teodoro Santoni
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Oz Tiram wrote: One argument I hear often about systemd is that it more adapted to current hardware needs, [e.g. here][1] Computers changed so much that they often doesn’t even look like computers. And their operating systems are very busy : GPS,

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 22/07/2015 10:00, Oz Tiram wrote: One argument I hear often about systemd is that it more adapted to current hardware needs, [e.g. here][1] Computers changed so much that they often doesn’t even look like computers. And their operating systems are very busy : GPS, wireless networks,

Re: [DNG] Please stop posting random links to hacked web sites

2015-07-22 Thread Jaromil
dear Martin, DNG is an open and public discussion place, not strictly bound to Devuan nor to Systemd: its the campfire after the exodus from Debian and it gathers people with different focus and interests. On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, Martin Steigerwald wrote: You basically give them public

[DNG] dev-one.org aka making it easier for english speakers

2015-07-22 Thread Jaromil
re all, we have setup a new alias for the official devuan.org domain name, to make it easier for english speakers when they want to communicate this project: dev-one.org our project's official name and branding stays as Devuan (which is now also a registered trademark, just to make sure it is

[DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Oz Tiram
One argument I hear often about systemd is that it more adapted to current hardware needs, [e.g. here][1] Computers changed so much that they often doesn’t even look like computers. And their operating systems are very busy : GPS, wireless networks, USB peripherals that come and go, tons of

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread miro . rovis
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 02:51:59PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 20:03:03 +0200 miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:50:44AM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: If I was able to understand correctly, vdev works with dbus. Vdev does not

Re: [DNG] Jeep Cherokee hacked

2015-07-22 Thread T.J. Duchene
They are achieving it via an on-line firmware update and downloading a completely new firmware to the entertainment unit. OS is irrelevant. [T.J. Duchene] I mean no offense, but that statement should really be qualified. Actually the OS is not irrelevant, depending on the configuration of

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread James Powell
There is ConsoleKit2... From: Vladmailto:2389...@gmail.com Sent: ‎7/‎22/‎2015 5:49 PM To: dng@lists.dyne.orgmailto:dng@lists.dyne.org Subject: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity? I think that the pretty useless feature which

Re: [DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 03:49:32AM +0300, Vlad wrote: I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. As you might know multi seat is supposed to make possible for multiple users to utilize a single desktop or laptop

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread James Powell
First off cool your jets, and trying call me out on knowing the internals of an IPC in Userspace I didn't develop is very childish. I honestly don't care if D-Bus what it does other than be a communication and messaging relay between applications and processes, as long as it does what it does,

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread miro . rovis
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:28:28PM -0700, James Powell wrote: D-Bus isn't great, but currently it is still a cross-UNIX IPC in userspace. BSD uses it, Illumos uses it, and so does GNU/Linux. Since you would still like it around, in opportunistic or in some other way that I should call it, I

Re: [DNG] Interesting comment from a kernel developer

2015-07-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 03:03:55PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: Yes, Debian has adopted systemd. As a quick fix, you can stick with Wheezy; or you can install Jessie and then install systemd-shim and sysvinit. After you install systemd-shim and sysvinit, Jessie should work more or less as

Re: [DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread James Powell
D-Bus isn't great, but currently it is still a cross-UNIX IPC in userspace. BSD uses it, Illumos uses it, and so does GNU/Linux. D-Bus is way down my list of software to steer clear of any more. From:

Re: [DNG] Ashley Madison hack

2015-07-22 Thread James Powell
The problem with some of these known attacks are the effectiveness of each. Example: Last night I was thinking about how it could have happened, but actually during a system evaluation I did in my head, I actually hit a large wall. Shadow can use cryptographic algorithms of at least 512-bit

[DNG] Multi-seat on Devuan, do we actually need that useless curiosity?

2015-07-22 Thread Vlad
I think that the pretty useless feature which helped systemd into Debian in the first place was discussed some time ago. As you might know multi seat is supposed to make possible for multiple users to utilize a single desktop or laptop system in full blown GUI mode via special USB hubs, the

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 22/07/2015 16:24, Isaac Dunham wrote: In general, I'd agree with you, but there are some situations where it's possible to argue for hotplugger/service manager integration: if you hotplug a scanner or printer, there's reason to think that the corresponding daemon (sane/cups/lprng/lpr)

[DNG] Will there be a MirDevuan WTF?

2015-07-22 Thread miro . rovis
Hi, Devuaners! I wrote to this list before, a couple of times. As miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr and miroslav.rov...@zg.ht.hr. I'll start from here: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd? http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20t=116770start=45#p552566 ( the encrypted channel not set up

Re: [DNG] systemd in the era of hotplugable devices

2015-07-22 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: On 22/07/2015 10:00, Oz Tiram wrote: One argument I hear often about systemd is that it more adapted to current hardware needs, [e.g. here][1] Computers changed so much that they often doesn’t even look like computers.