Ruben Safir writes:
> Bullshit
>
> You should leave and Richard should stop beiong harrassed by bigots like
> you
>
> The truth is, you don't get a say in this. GNU is not a democracy,
Ruben (and everyone else), can you please take a kinder tone when
discussing on GNU lists, even if you disagr
Everyone,
This is off-topic for gnu-system-discuss. gnu-system-discuss is for technical
topics related to the GNU System. Please take the discussion elsewhere.
Furthermore, if the discussion is to continue to include personal attacks
against *any* member of GNU, then it should not be held on
On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 06:18 +0500, Anonymous wrote:
> Your use of the word "apply" here is equivocal (a logical fallacy).
On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 19:06 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> We've seen heavy use of logical fallacy from you (false
> analogy, position statements with no attempt at supporting
On Thu, 2017-03-09 at 19:28 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> > This is a bunk argument. If, for example, a server is set up to
> > deny you access to files because you don't have an account and,
> > thus, you cannot download them with wget, the server is not denying
> > freedom 0 to you.
>
> GNU wget
On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 22:53 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> It's in fact that separate issue that has been under discussion here.
> To date, there has been no claim or discussion over whether the use of
> the GNU Radio application is restricted. That's not a point of
> contention. GNU Radio Foundati
uot;GNU variant" implies that one can find reference (which was resolutely
rejected). "GNU version" just doesn't have a good ring to it. I don't
know...Any other suggestions? Or am I talking nonsense?
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ration" seems to me to fit better. But this
could just be an effect of being indoctrinated by the marketing
techniques that tried to sell me toys and video games in the 80s.
-brandon
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Still, in the long-term let's be
optimistic; we know that there are people at least working on it.
-brandon
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"Garreau, Alexandre" writes:
> On 2014-12-10 at 10:19, Brandon Invergo wrote:
>> There is the Replicant project for making a libre Android (it's not an
>> official GNU project),
>
> Yet it follows the GNU philosophy of freeing everything and therefore
>
hink even there you are stuck with
proprietary drivers to run some essential hardware bits. Could anyone
who has used Replicant confirm/deny/elaborate on that?
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simply a means of managing locally installed software on top of an
existing system.
I hope that clears it up.
-brandon
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do was fill our ranks
with toadies who would vote in its favor.
Yours in paranoia and distrust,
-brandon
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came up...this was just a
good opportunity to try putting them into words).
In any case, I'll bow out now to think more about what everyone has said
and to come to some conclusions for myself.
-brandon
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"Jason Self" writes:
> Brandon Invergo wrote ..
>
>> This goes back to my point that the problem with calling something >
> "The GNU System" is that it implies that there is a single,
>> specific set of software that defines the system. The kernel i
I recognize that there's a "border issue": at what point
does a free software system stop being a GNU system? If all core GNU
tools/libraries are swapped out in favor of other (free) alternatives,
is it still GNU? I would still argue "yes", as long as it's free and
Uni
wnload an operating system than it is to
download a software distribution.
Sorry, a bit rambling, but hopefully my meaning is clear.
-brandon
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re are important non-GNU (as in, not officially GNU software) free
software packages that help comprise the GNU system (I think I said as
much in another part).
-brandon
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ome GNU Project packages that don't normally
get included in the other distros (again like lsh vs openssh).
How does that sound? Am I on my own in thinking this way?
-brandon
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ction. In
fact, I've made changes to GSRC to reinforce this distinction
(i.e. removing 3rd-party dependencies).
I think that just about sums it up but I welcome other comments. :)
Cheers,
Brandon
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> I was part of generating the idea to do GSRC, so I can say why I still
> think it's important given what I had in mind then.
Thanks for this explanation! Actually, in some ways I hadn't found/been
given such a clear explanation about the package's original intended
purpose(s) so I interpreted it
>> I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
>> ("dotfiles") so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
>> under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
>> need into their proper places.
>
> That's exactly my use case too:
>
> http://lists.
> Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
("dotfiles") so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
need into their proper
> I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a
> functional package manager and associated free software distribution of
> the GNU system.
Congrats on the release! I'm looking forward to running a Guix-based
system soon :)
> The ROADMAP file sketches the current plan. GNU ha
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 15:58 +0200, Claudio Fontana wrote:
> The goal of sourceinstall is to be able to install arbitrary source
> packages from source code, with no repository in mind, and is not
> meant to be bound to a particular OS.
> For my use case, I keep my OS packages in prefix /usr, while
> With regards to the GUI, I did something of partly overlapping scope
> in the past with the sourceinstall project;
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/
>
There does seem to be a lot of overlap in functionality there, though
the backend looks like it functions quite differently. How d
> Of course, none of these are deeply technical points. But I don't see
> the differences between the existing distros as all that deeply
> technical, either, so it's not a barrier in my mind.
Indeed, I think most distros start as a single descriptive goal: "I want
the most user-friendly distro,
Daniel Robbins is the original project founder of Gentoo (and, later,
Funtoo) and the author of its Portage (BSD Ports-like) package
management system.
In regards to that, though, GNU already has GSRC, which is based on GAR
(another Ports-like system) and puts to use other GNU software such as
Mak
y offers
the full functionality set out as the practical goal of GNU but still
manages to really communicate through its design the philosophy behind
the project as well.
Brandon Invergo
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:43 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
> It seems to me that a GNU distribution should include and give preference to
> GNU software whenever possible. That would include Evolution for example,
> which
> is part of GNOME, which is part of GNU and also Icecat, which is another GNU
nload this huge block of
text and expect people to be interested. Hopefully some of these ideas
could be of use, though. I'm looking forward to seeing them discussed
since they've until now just been floating around unchallenged in my
head (where everything is sunny and all ideas are inherently extremely
great ideas).
Regards,
Brandon Invergo
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