Also, VLC 2.2.0 (latest) has been compiled by Alien Bob for Slackware, without systemd.
http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/coordinated-release-of-vlc-2-2-0/ -----Original Message----- From: "Gravis" [rin...@adaptivetime.com] Date: 03/03/2015 01:56 PM To: "Tom Collins" <tomcollins...@mail.com> CC: "dng@lists.dyne.org" <dng@lists.dyne.org> Subject: Re: [Dng] V^DNLC starts to be subsumed by systemd > They feel if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. what gives you that idea? they dont collect usage stats or anything, they just give you the /option/ to have the player look up missing information about what is playing or check if there is a new release. what is so sinister about that? you sound like a lot like a troll. --Gravis On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tom Collins <tomcollins...@mail.com> wrote: > Yes, that is what I mean (Video Lan Client) > It also phones home these days by default: > http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/downloading-and-installing-vlc-media-player-in-win.pageCd-storyboard,pageNum-11.html#slideshow > > The linux we knew is done unless everything is forked. The new generation of > developers are not trustworthy. They feel if you have nothing to hide you > have nothing to fear. Bascially what that means is that their world view is > correct and anyone who is against their worldview _should_ be found out and > be subject to the law (which they support). They are totalitarians and feel > that the world is theirs and it is only right that people follow their > worldview and people that do not be punished and pushed out of the world. > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 at 5:25 PM > From: "Svante Signell" <svante.sign...@gmail.com> > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: Re: [Dng] V^DNLC starts to be subsumed by systemd > On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 18:11 +0100, Tom Collins wrote: >> http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/03/02/1037248 >> " VLC Media Player Gains Support For Logging To Systemd's Journal" >> >> Honestly, I am starting to suspect that userland will need to be >> entirely forked to stay away from systemd. It seems every developer >> these days is infected with a mind virus: from the phoning home that >> todays linux software does (be it the browsers or things like V^DNLC) to >> the acceptance and then reliance on systemd, to the cavilear attitude >> towards security of any kind, today's developers are not the >> trustworthy people of the past. Linux is now where the microsoft world >> was in the 90s, with the same type of persons. ("if you're not doing >> anything wrong" Yes, we may be doing things that you say are wrong, >> guess what we live in different cultures and maybe are mortal enemies) > > I assume you mean VLC in your mail at all entries, not VNC, that's > something different :) > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
