Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:46:11PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > I assume you find it more productive to bury your head in the sand > about potential impacts of really major changes to the plumbing of a > platform, and wait for things to break after-the-fact? I suspect Steve will continue to work

.bash_history disappeared

2014-10-13 Thread Rusi Mody
Subject line about says it. Didnt exactly disappear but became zero-length. Checked because there seemed to nothing in the history. Closed that shell and restarted. The last shell's commands were there, nothing else Wouldn't bother asking were it not for shellshock... Debian jessie (with systemd

Ecards without Flash

2014-10-13 Thread Riley Baird
Hi, Are there any e-card websites out there that do not require flash? I'd rather not tell people to install the flash plugin. Thanks, Riley Baird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > >> It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that > >>should not be named. Most, if not all of the argument

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than strin

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:45:03PM +0200, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that > should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as > against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical >

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation, or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the default installation of systemd?

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Marty wrote: On 10/13/2014 07:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debia

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: > 1. Whether or not there's a clear statement regarding the installer - will > users be presented with a clear choice of init systems during installation, > or is it going to be left to folks to figure out how to work around the > default installation of systemd? It's not bee

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/13/14, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Apropos all the discussion on systemd, I'm curious about how to > determine all the packages that depend on it. > > All my systems are running squeeze (call me very conservative when it > comes to upgrades - actually, I have one, very stable virtual machine > t

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:57 PM, lee wrote: > Martin Read writes: > >> On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: >>> Bas Wijnen writes: Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to be seconded by at least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7). This has not happened. >>>

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Martin Read writes: > On 12/10/14 23:04, lee wrote: >> Bas Wijnen writes: >>> Because for a GR, a member of Debian has to request it and it needs to >>> be seconded by at least 5 other members (constitution 4.2.1, 4.2.7). >>> This has not happened. >> >> I know, and I'm suggesting to omit this r

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Matthias Urlichs writes: > But please don't just do this in the context of yet another attempt to > express dissatisfaction with the fact that our TC chose systemd: > if you do, I do not think you'll achieve anything except more annoyance > about the fact that we're discussing this *again*, and f

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Joey Hess writes: > So at this point, most of us are pretty tired of the subject. And just ignore it and the consequences because you're tired of thinking about it? > Secondly, Russ Allbrey did an amazing job during the -ctte decision of > weighing systemd vs the alternatives. Has any of this

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Hi, > > lee: >> I'm sure we could find quite a few supporters for having a GR amongst >> the users (here). > > We don't do a GR among our users. We do that among Debian > members/maintainers/developers/take-your-pick. I didn't suggest a GR amongst the users, though I d

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Joel Rees writes: > Presto: All dissent is fud. Perfectly said, thank you! That the issue isn't entirely clear lies in the nature of the issue. If you are a good admin, you know how to deal with such issues. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swal

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 9:53 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Apologies if this comes through twice - it doesn't look like the first > one made it (and I got no bounce message :) ). > Crap - then I didn't get it threaded properly. Sorry about that, all. Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Apologies if this comes through twice - it doesn't look like the first one made it (and I got no bounce message :) ). On 10/13/2014 8:40 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: >>> Brian writes: >>> The mail is accepted. What the recipient does w

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Marty
On 10/13/2014 07:14 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote: > >> This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd >> default in Jess

Re: Network fails on headless system. I'm stuck!

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
Since Andrei didn't seem to have CC-ed you, https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/10/msg00873.html He said, > See if your kernel includes all the needed options for systemd > /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz Also, I'm sure the arm list will be of more use, am adding them to the CC list

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: Brian writes: The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. When the MTA

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Marty
On 10/13/2014 07:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) re

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:18 PM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding >> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers >> (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). > > That's totally retarded. When I don

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 10/13/2014 7:10 PM, lee wrote: > Brian writes: > >> The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that >> is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient >> to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. > > When the MTA delivers

Re: Network fails on headless system. I'm stuck!

2014-10-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/13/2014 05:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2014 13:42:52 JPT wrote: any idea what the problem is, and how to solve? Those with better heads than I will help you with this, but why on earth at this time are you running Jessie headless? Surely, if you need to run headless, i

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, lee wrote: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding >> emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers >> (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). > > That's totally retarded. W

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve McIntyre wrote: Joey Hess wrote: -=-=-=-=-=- Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of De

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian wrote: >> > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote: >> > >> >> This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make >>

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:50 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 > (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your > production servers with sysvinit. Okay, for now, that is until more packages dec

how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Apropos all the discussion on systemd, I'm curious about how to determine all the packages that depend on it. All my systems are running squeeze (call me very conservative when it comes to upgrades - actually, I have one, very stable virtual machine that still runs lenny)), and apt-rdepends se

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > And, in fact, more and more ISPs are just accepting and discarding > emails to non-existent users because rejecting such email helps spammers > (any non-rejected email must be a valid user). That's totally retarded. When I don't get an error message in return, the messag

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-13 Thread lee
Brian writes: > The mail is accepted. What the recipient does with the mail after that > is outside the scope of an RFC. There is no obligation on the recipient > to inform the sender that he has ripped up the mail and junked it. When the MTA delivers the mail it accepted correctly, then there i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Joey Hess wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Miles Fidelman wrote: >> But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to >> do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. > >Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) >release of Debian. So you c

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 9:11 AM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Although I'm up with patching, but I most definitely don't want any >> system that I am responsible to maintain to have systemd installed, it >> is

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

2014-10-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joel Rees writes: > If pid 1 gets stalled, lots of things all over the system get to wait > for something important that can't happen until pid 1 gets un-stalled, > and that's true even with quad core. It may not freeze every process, > but it can cause dropped packets and such things. Potentially

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 07:37:17 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > The only way to fix that in systemd is for systemd to delegate the > complicated stuff like managing dbus to child processes, so the > processes that will occasionally stall won't impact the whole system > as much. > > When/if that happens, w

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 08:02:28 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote: > > > >> This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make > >> Systemd > >> default in Jessie was done by the Techn

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Joey Hess wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot yo

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 23:18:01 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > > That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually. > > That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff to > -user instead of -offtopic. :s/o

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 18:30:41 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > > >>On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>>Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >Again.. when di

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote: > >> This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd >> default in Jessie was done by the Technical Committee, not by general vote, >> so I guess it was decided that t

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Miles Fidelman wrote: > But that is the major objection of those of us who USE Debian -- the need to > do so, particularly when this concerns production servers. Sysvinit will continue to be supported on servers in Debian 8 (jessie) release of Debian. So you can continue to boot your production se

Re: Way OT: Re. lines of code [was Re: implicit linkage]

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:14:29PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Jonathan Dowland >>> wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:48:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >

Painful BlueTooth Audio

2014-10-13 Thread Leslie Rhorer
I have a little Intel NUC running Debian Jessie whose purpose is to control a multimedia show using DMX for lighting and BLueTooth A2DP for audio. It's a wireless, headless box that sits in a corner and does its job. Well, it should be. The problem is the BlueTooth audio is far from automatic

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 15:07:33 -0700, Buntunub wrote: > This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd > default in Jessie was done by the Technical Committee, not by general vote, > so I guess it was decided that the whole discussion about Systemd is a bug > because

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, Debian (and Linux in genera

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
David L. Craig wrote: On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. 1% participation in any discussion

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be yet to learn of the facts at some stage. Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be labouring under the assumption that your

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct14:0837+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the > >> subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. > > > > 1% participation in any discussion

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 Oct 2014 at 06:34:17 +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, > >>> Debian (and Linux in ge

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Buntunub
This list is the perfect place for such things. The decision to make Systemd default in Jessie was done by the Technical Committee, not by general vote, so I guess it was decided that the whole discussion about Systemd is a bug because it was relegated to such. This is the mailing list used to disc

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/14 4:35 "Jonathan Dowland" : > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now? > > I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity > or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
Sorry, John. I clicked "reply" instead of pressing "l". On Monday 13 October 2014 22:32:15 John Hasler wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the > > subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. > > 1% participation in any d

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:40:38AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be > yet to learn of the facts at some stage. Don't confuse facts and opinions. You seem to be labouring under the assumption that your opinions are "right" an

How to set up services depending on encrypted filesystems with systemd (was Re: How to do this ?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi Erwan, Firstly I've changed the subject for this thread because the original was not terribly descriptive. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:57:00AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 09:40:44PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > And how to do this is a big problem. There are many ma

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my opinion this is the very definition of "vocal minority". Vocal minority, looking after the interests of many more whom will be yet to learn of the facts at some stage. but otherwise have no re

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 8:32 AM, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: >> Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the >> subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. > > 1% participation in any discussion on a list su

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread John Hasler
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Without an accurate count I'd say only about 1% (or less) of the > subscribers are actually participating in these discussion. 1% participation in any discussion on a list such as this would be very large. Passing a GR to take Debian closed-source and relicense everything

U.N/WBO/042UK/2014

2014-10-13 Thread U/N/O
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Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 13 October 2014 20:59:04 Bret Busby wrote: > If I use the backports thing, to go to a newer kernel, would that be > compatible with the Debian 7 system as it stands, or, would I end up > with a hybrid (mixture of stable and testing) system? Yes, it would be compatible. I have done this

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 08:00:46, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > Clearly though, when so many people have strong views against a > decision that they think is wrong, such as something significant as > systemd well we've just got to deal with it too; According to https://lists.debian.org/stats/ there

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 7:18 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually. >> > > That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff > t

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 4:24 AM, Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking bett

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 13 Oct 14:43 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:01:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > Slackware springs to mind. > > > > Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I > > understand, t

Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 03:59:04, Bret Busby wrote: > > Apart from the politics of the free vs proprietary software, what do > you know of any differences (as in advantages/disadvantages, if any) > between the two driver types? In my experience nouveau is slower (the primary reason I keep going back

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:24:29 + (UTC) Curt wrote: On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is looking better and better). Oh shit. If I we

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:53:12, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > That list is basically irrelevant, no traffic at all, virtually. That only happens because people insist on posting off-topic stuff to -user instead of -offtopic. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Jason C. Taylor
I'm a desktop user too. I've tried FunToo and Void. Void came very close to working for me, but there were a few things that it just couldn't do--at least not easily enough for me--that I need to do my job. I'd love to try PC-BSD, but there's no support for my WiFi card. I'll probably give O

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Curt wrote: >> On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar >>> conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is >>> looking better and better). >>> >> Oh shit. >> >> > > Wou

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Brian
On Mon 13 Oct 2014 at 14:20:16 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Curt wrote: > >On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar > >>conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, SmartOS is > >>looking better and better). > >> >

Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/10/2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:19:51, Bret Busby wrote: >> >> This is the first attemt to send that file as an attachment. > ... >> [35.167] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0416:1025:0781 rev 6, Mem @ >> 0xd300/4194304, 0xc000/268435456, I/O @ 0x5000/64 >> [

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 6:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:21:24, Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> A default desktop install of Jessie will bring in Gnome and as a >> result will also bring in systemd > > Small correction here, just to make i

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 oct 14, 06:21:24, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > A default desktop install of Jessie will bring in Gnome and as a result > will also bring in systemd Small correction here, just to make it 100% clear: A default install of Jessie will bring in systemd, period. (with or without desktop

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:49 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > If I were going to give up free software and go proprietary, I'd go > Mac. Unfortunately, at this point I'm actually considering Mac as my > final backstop. Last I checked, Mac hadn't patch Shellshock prope

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 6:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:45:03, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: >> It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the >> SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of >> the arguments for, as w

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 14:56:38, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > At first quick glance over, didn't find "advocacy" per se (by name), > but did see a possibility in debian-publicity: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/ Please don't, that list is for publicity of Debian (writing the Debian new

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 19:45:03, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that > should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as > against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical > nature. As suc

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:10:50PM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > And they still have their servers misconfigured? As I said, that's how it was when I last worked in the team which ran the mail gateways. I dion't care to check what the situation is now. I don't accept your characterisation that the

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:01:00PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 > Carl Fink wrote: > > > Slackware springs to mind. > > Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I > understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support > depen

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread golinux
On Mon, 10/13/14, Miles Fidelman wrote: Subject: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users) To: "debian-user" Date: Monday, October 13, 2014, 11:45 AM Folks, [cut] I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a similar concl

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:23:42PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > If that's true, why the avalanche of dissent now? I see a lot of posts, but hardly any posters, and not a great deal of clarity or consistency about what the complaints are. I also see a lot of FUD, both about systemd and what Debian

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:56 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, >>> Debian (and Linux in general) has been most use

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:47 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >> Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, >> Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the server >> env

Re: How to do this ?

2014-10-13 Thread Erwan David
Le 13/10/2014 21:21, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:16:25, Erwan David wrote: >> That's a server, and the daemons & mount must survive logout. > > Your ~/.profile could contain commands like > > sudo service my-daemon start > > (used 'service' on purpose, since it will wo

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 03:42:26PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:59:24AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Which does kind of lead back to the question of what's the point of > > a social contract that says users and their needs are the priority. > > The point is that

Re: react on power button press

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 10:42:59, Darac Marjal wrote: > > You shouldn't normally need that. Most PCs these days implement ACPI, It's not a PC (but he didn't mention it in this post). > > ps. I did not subscribe to the list. Please CC me. But he won't see your message anyway :p Kind regards, Andrei

Re: How to do this ?

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:16:25, Erwan David wrote: > > > That's a server, and the daemons & mount must survive logout. Your ~/.profile could contain commands like sudo service my-daemon start (used 'service' on purpose, since it will work with both sysv-rc and systemd) How about that

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/10/2014 5:29 AM, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > Sysvinit-core was introduced in jessie and systemd-sysv conflicts with > sysvinit-core. Systemd-sysv is also available in wheezy, but there are > 24486 reports from the popcon version 1.61 (testing/unsta

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:02:16 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > Slackware springs to mind. Before this, I would have said that slackware sucks. From what I understand, they're proud that their package manager doesn't support dependencies. Sy wht? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.tr

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Joe
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:47:39 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For > > years, Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the > > server environment. Breaking server dep

Re: Prolem with external monitor

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:19:51, Bret Busby wrote: > > This is the first attemt to send that file as an attachment. ... > [35.167] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:0416:1025:0781 rev 6, Mem @ > 0xd300/4194304, 0xc000/268435456, I/O @ 0x5000/64 > [35.167] (--) PCI: (0:1:0:0) 10de:0fe4:1025:

Re: who is looking for a new distro as a result of systemd (particularly server-side users)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:24:29 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2014-10-13, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > > I'm really curious to know how many others here have come to a > > similar conclusion, and what folks are looking at (in my case, > > SmartOS is looking better and better). > > > > Oh shit. If I

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:13:23 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > As [1] shows the majority of Jessie users have migrated to systemd, > probably as an effect of GNOME starting to depend on it (around May > 2014) and the new init package (around June 2014). Everyone: Please, please, PLEASE read the pr

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:45:03 +0200 Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the > SysV-replacement that should not be named. Most, if not all of the > arguments for, as well as against seem to be of a philosophical, > rather than stringent technichnical natur

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 10:36:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > And, as a couple of folks have now pointed out, a lot of developers did not > know about the initial vote proposal. 1 (one) is not "a lot". Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian u

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the server environment. Breaking server deployments, at the expense of the desktop seems like ba

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-13 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/13/14, Anders Wegge Keller wrote: > It seems that there's a lot of controversy about the SysV-replacement that > should not be named. Most, if not all of the arguments for, as well as > against seem to be of a philosophical, rather than stringent technichnical > nature. As such, they are pr

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 oct 14, 12:34:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Again.. when did the desktop become the priority for Debian. For years, > Debian (and Linux in general) has been most useful in the server > environment. Breaking server deployments, at the expense of the desktop > seems like bad policy. Do

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:21:45 +0200 Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Those who are most impacted are sys admins of servers, and upstream > > developers > > I’m both, and I joined Debian to try to make an impact… > > > - the two communities most impacted,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 17:33:02 +0200 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > I really don't buy the argument that "the GR proposal was too quiet > to be noticed by 6+ people". I mean: the proposition happened to be > in the middle of the post-TC decision wave, on the mailing lists > where it belonged. The pe

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