Re: [DNG] Networking on installation

2016-12-07 Thread Patrick Meade
On 12/07/2016 11:23 AM, Steve Litt wrote: * Because most wifi software sucks, I suggest Devuan roll its own CLI software, for the installation, that iwlist wlan0 scanning lists the access points, takes the ssid and password, and then appends the result of wpa_passphrase to the bottom of

[DNG] DNS Ad-Blocking (Was: FF pulseaudio hard dependency is here)

2017-03-13 Thread Patrick Meade
On 03/13/2017 02:46 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: On 12/03/17 16:49, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: Have you considered rolling your own add-blocking with a list of unwanted sites in /etc/hosts ? A bad idea, because your browser expects some sort of response. It's better to replace unwanted con

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

2017-03-15 Thread Patrick Meade
On 03/14/2017 08:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: We have our quiet sans-systemd corners, and right now they're comfortable, but remember that the Freedesktop/Redhat/SystemdCabal consortium has the goal of eliminating systemd as a choice, and they still have the power to take our init systems away from

Re: [DNG] A problem with a license

2017-07-05 Thread Patrick Meade
On 07/05/2017 10:46 AM, Ivan J. wrote: That clause itself is not a big problem, but IMHO it should rather be moved to the README file or something similar rather than the license itself where it actually *is* putting restrictions and in the case of FSF would not be considered free software. It

Re: [DNG] Caching leads to unresponsiveness

2017-08-11 Thread Patrick Meade
On 08/11/2017 10:43 AM, Joachim Fahrner wrote: Linux uses all available more for caching of filesystems. When copying large files to slow network filesystems (nfs, smb, sshfs, davfs) it takes a long time until such allocated memory becomes free. When these network filesystems saturate memory l

Re: [DNG] Debian testing drop redis non systemd

2017-10-20 Thread Patrick Meade
On 10/20/2017 10:22 AM, John Hughes wrote: On 20/10/17 16:37, Antony Stone wrote: However, Bardot Jérôme's original posting in this thread, quoting Chris Lamb Wed, 11 Oct 2017 22:55:00 -0400 said: "This version drops the Debian-specific support for the /etc/redis/redis-{server}.sentinel.{pre,

Re: [DNG] Debian testing drop redis non systemd

2017-10-23 Thread Patrick Meade
On 10/23/2017 04:10 AM, John Hughes wrote: On 21/10/17 01:53, Patrick Meade wrote: That text is not from the Debian changelog, but rather from debian/NEWS. Ah, didn't notice that.  Always trust the code before the doc. Still don't understand why it says "in favour of systemd

Re: [DNG] Debian testing drop redis non systemd

2017-10-24 Thread Patrick Meade
On 10/23/2017 09:19 AM, John Hughes wrote: On 23/10/17 15:59, Patrick Meade wrote: As John Hughes said, this isn't quite as bad as we originally thought. We can still run redis-server with the Debian provided sysvinit script, and Debian isn't throwing away upstream files for no reas

Re: [DNG] Chris Lamb = Good Maintainer (Was: Debian testing drop redis)

2017-10-26 Thread Patrick Meade
On 10/26/2017 09:36 AM, John Hughes wrote: Frankly it seems that some people have been rather fast to assume bad faith and very few people who commented either knew what they were talking about or made the slightest effort to actually understand what Chris Lamb had done. I opened a pull reque

Re: [DNG] Clear communication (Was: Debian testing drop redis)

2017-10-28 Thread Patrick Meade
On 10/28/2017 02:06 AM, John Hughes wrote: While keeping your eyes peeled is obviously a good thing please remember the downsides of crying wolf when the wolf isn't there. Clear communication is also a good thing. Perhaps the words "[D]rops the Debian-specific support for ... in favour of usin

Re: [DNG] Please provide systemd-free libreswan package

2017-11-15 Thread Patrick Meade
On 11/15/2017 08:30 AM, Sam Protsenko wrote: Can you please provide libreswan package with sysvinit integration in Devuan? Can someone please look into it? P.S. Not sure that feature requests belong here, so if I'm wrong about this, please point me out to correct place. [1] https://packages.de

Re: [DNG] I found a new reason to dislike debian...

2017-11-20 Thread Patrick Meade
On 11/19/2017 10:01 PM, zap wrote: there are dongle usbs whose firmware has been made free software, and I cannot use this firmware from devuan, because some arrogant debian devs were too lazy to remove the non-free package and add the free package. so annoying. Will you provide a link to this

[DNG] Countering trusting trust (Was: forensics on systemd or journald logs)

2017-11-24 Thread Patrick Meade
On 11/23/2017 05:28 AM, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..aye. And then we have the good old Ken Thompson style compiler hacks and 33 years of water under the bridge to come up with even better hacks... David Wheeler taught us how to counter Ken Thompson's Trusting Trust attack 8 years ago. https://www

Re: [DNG] Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 Beta released

2018-02-14 Thread Patrick Meade
On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 20:07 -0500, Fungal-net wrote: > Because as per a couple of hours ago it seems as I have been exposed > to this amprolla3 for 4-5 months now, without knowing, and although I > run about the same stuff on a test debian isntallations, pkgs there > rain down to the level of about