Happy April Fools, you limey bastards. On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Veteran Unix Admins <vua-re...@devuan.org> wrote:
> > Dear Init Freedom lovers, > > Once again the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you! > > As most of you know, we have followed up with our intentions in > developing Devuan GNU/Linux right after Ian Jackson's GR vote resolution > in Debian. We have made great progress and achieved several milestones > among them a complete SDK to facilitate package maintainance, a new > package repository software "Amprolla" and a continuous integration > workflow based on gitlab and Jenkins. We are also proud to have > facilitate the work of Jude Nelson on a new /dev daemon implementation > called VDev and more in general to have given voice to all those who had > doubts about systemd being a viable course of evolution for GNU/Linux > operating systems. > > > By doing so we have obviously looked deep inside Debian and systemd > itself and we have never refrained from critically analysing what > systemd was doing as well what we were doing and the reasons for it. > > We firmly believe every responsible and critical engineer out there > should at least think twice about developing something new systems and > even Donald Knuth teaches us in the Art of Programming that is always > appropriate to re-think and re-design algorithms and challenge ourselves > over our own initial beliefs. > > > That's why today, after 7 months of work in the direction of forking > Debian we have decided that not, we will not do that. Today we give up > and we accept to be assimilated. After all, we think that systemd is > not so bad and we can live with it. > > We understand some of you may not be convinced, but please consider our > decision here is really well thought. It is also too hard for us to > catch up with the rampant development going on in systemd and we believe > that we can live just fine with systemd and some shims. We tried hard, > now we hope you will believe us and even if you don't, at least please > give systemd a try. > > With the existing infrastructure in place, we will start maintaining a > mirror of systemd and use our CI infrastructure to contribute > deterministic reproducible builds of Debian packages. > > We ask the free and open source software community at large to please > accept our apologies for making so much noise on this issue, today we > feel like we have just been trolled by all those complainers we > initially gave voice and leverage, while it is evident they have nothing > to contribute really. It took us some time to understand that systemd is > the future and we hope this experience contributes to a critical > understanding of systemd. > > To all those who have donated substantial amounts of money so far: we > commit to return you all the donations in EUR or Dogecoin. The donations > that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give > back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as > well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor > children in Africa. > > so long and thanks for all the fish, > > The Veteran Unix Admins > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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