Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-09-30 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:44:21AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > Hi, > > Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the > increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*. > Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system > instead of just containing

Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-09-30 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Edward Bartolo (edb...@gmail.com): > Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the > increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*. > Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system > instead of just containing the minimal necessary

[DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-09-30 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Like most people on this mailing list I am shocked to notice the increasing bloat that is going into boot-loaders like grub*. Boot-loaders are becoming like a stripped down operating system instead of just containing the minimal necessary functionality to understand disk and partition

[DNG] Discourse MIME messages (was Re: On talk.do and Web forums)

2016-09-30 Thread hellekin
On 09/30/2016 11:28 AM, hellekin wrote: >> >> appear to be HTML formatted. HTML formatted? Sy what??? >> Here's what RFC 2046 has to say: Systems should recognize that the content of the various parts are interchangeable. Systems should choose the "best" type based on the local

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-30 Thread hellekin
On 09/28/2016 03:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > For me, discourse is nothing but silliness. The discourse summary and > discourse Digest emails I occasionally get are hard to read, boring, > and appear to be HTML formatted. HTML formatted? Sy what??? > If they appear to be HTML formatted,