Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 03 March 2014 07:05:22 Doug wrote: > It would seem that XSane is smart enough to scan > without any other drivers This is very much not my experience. I have always found that XSANE needs drivers, and if they are not available says that it cannot find the scanner. Lisi -- To UNSUB

Re: Partial success and strange partial failure -was [Re: Physically have install DVD set. Want ISO's from which they came.]

2014-03-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Hmm, I thought the 'count=' stuff was only needed for CD-ROMs. Again, I > prefer to keep things simple and would rather use just: > > md5sum /dev/sdb This will not give you the MD5 of the image that was copied to the beginning of the storage device, unless the image size is exactly th

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, y...@marupa.net wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 03:05:20 From: y...@marupa.net To: >> debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Four people decided the >> fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith and other such complete >> fabrications

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/14 17:00, ghaverla wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> You *imagine*, not "think" (using reductive logic?). I'm sure your >> not a bully who forces your ideas onto those that do want fast boot >> instead of hibernation. > > Did you really need to sen

Install a package without download and installation step from other packages

2014-03-03 Thread Fatemeh m
Hi, I installed debian 7 on another system, I want to copy the packages from my system and paste them to the other system, but without download and also without need to install them. tanx

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 mar 14, 18:09:46, ghaverla wrote: > > Systemd seems to have 2 proponents, people interested in fast booting, > and people interested in servers. The intersection of those two groups > is almost the NULL set. I think the answer to faster booting is > hibernation, and people have been pl

Re: Install a package without download and installation step from other packages

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/14 19:10, Fatemeh m wrote: > Hi, > I installed debian 7 on another system, I want to copy the packages from > my system and paste them to the other system, but without download and > also without need to install them. > tanx Copy the packages to the other system. You can do that by CD/DV

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 06:09:46PM -0700, ghaverla wrote: [BIG snip] > With Respect To boot times, I would think moving to a specialised shell > that had no interactive capability (such as Gnu Readline) might be a > place to start. That the "shell" often had to invoke subshells to do > things, to

Help with GPT

2014-03-03 Thread ha
Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed to install into /target/", or something like that. Now, I'm aware that I can solve this by

Re: Zimbra mail........

2014-03-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2014, 09:38:17 schrieb Charlie: > From my Keyboard: > > Just a quick question. Does anyone use Zimbra mail and know something > about setting it up. Have changed to a new ISP and they us Zimbra > mail. They set up the default account without too much trouble othe

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Doug wrote: On 03/03/2014 12:56 AM, Bret Busby wrote:Debian; why provision is not made, to allow software that runs on Debian 5, to run on Debian 6 and Debian 7. As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the multifunctionality worked with Debian 5.

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Du, 02 mar 14, 18:09:46, ghaverla wrote: > > > > Systemd seems to have 2 proponents, people interested in fast booting, > > and people interested in servers. The intersection of those two groups > > is almost the NULL set. I think the answer to faster booting is

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote: > > Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context > of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution > of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being > included in the offical Debian version. htt

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
I agree with Scott completely (if this is not obvious from my own post), but I'd like to add: On Lu, 03 mar 14, 19:03:44, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > When you install you are asked if you want to include the non-free and > contrib repositories. non-free is what it says it, and contrib is > package

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 03 March 2014 09:10:46 Bret Busby wrote: > The device is a Samsung CLX3185FW, and it had drivers that worked > with Debian 5. Contact Samsung. If you have difficulty in getting through to someone who speaks "Linux" mail me off-list and I'll give you a name. A client had bought a Samsu

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2014, y...@marupa.net wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 03:05:20 From: y...@marupa.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith and othe

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 03 March 2014 09:49:13 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I strongly advise that on your next buy (not necessarily MFPs) you > also consider how well that device is supported with Linux. Bonus > if the manufacturer contributes to that support. If enough of us > are doing the same it might eventually

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote: Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being include

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 10:40:52, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > On Du, 02 mar 14, 18:09:46, ghaverla wrote: > > > > > > Systemd seems to have 2 proponents, people interested in fast booting, > > > and people interested in servers. The intersection of those two groups > > >

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 17:10:46, Bret Busby wrote: > > Whilst the device had been able to work with Debian 5, it simply > does not work with Debian Linux after Debian 5, other than using a > printer driver for, I think the Samsung CL317x series. Did you try splix? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wik

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:56:45, Bret Busby wrote: Apart from the systemd fight stuff, I am wondering, in the context of the above message content, why a spearate firmware distribution of Debian Linux, needs to exist, rather than the firmware being include

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 19:01:10 From: Andrei POPESCU To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight On Lu, 03 mar 14, 17:10:46, Bret Busby wrote: Whilst the device had been able to work with Debian 5, it simply does n

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 18:31:20 From: Lisi Reisz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight Resent-Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 10:48:12 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Monday 03 March 2014 09:49:13 A

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:41 PM, NoTo CTTE wrote: > Systemd is over 200,000 lines of ring0 running bullshit. > Regular inits are under 10k lines of code inclusive. > Some are 100 lines of code. > > Hmm which is easier to find exploits in. > SystemD. > > Notice how the [...] Just for the record, I

scnner drivers -- Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd troll

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/03/14 16:56, Bret Busby wrote: >> [...] >> >> As a single example, I have a multifunction printer, of which, the >> multifunctionality worked with Debian 5. Now, it is only a laser >> printer, running with Debian 6 - to use it to scan,

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > [...] > But, Linux, and, the Linux community, should not have the same objective; it > should instead, be preserving the (that I believe to be) primary objective > of UNIX; that a programme that is written for one version, can run on any > versio

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my > own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business > purposes involve meeting SLAs so reboots once or twice a year can cost a > lot of money - so

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
> I want to do number crunching, I don't want to be bothered by the boot > process. It works. If I have to go make coffee while the boot process > is happening, I'll go make coffee. While your invisible guests are doing somthing similar inside your computer? :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 19:30:08 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote: > For example, initscripts are so VERY not portable. I am sorry to say this, > but > it is true. In theory they should be, as you state, according the UNIX > Philosophy they should be. But here comes the problem of that philosophy > ass

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 09:20:44 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > You grow up. Technically inferior stuff always seems to get the money, > but you get to live in the results of your choices. On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 19:00:40 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote: > > > Doesn't make the decision to drop SysV Init, a system

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 10:53:51 + Jack wrote: > On 02/03/2014 05:11, Eric Newcomb wrote: > > Technical issues aside, I went through the list of members of the > > tech-ctte, found here: https://www.debian.org/intro/organization. I > > searched each name on the list on Google, and I can't hones

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Fred Wilson
On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 23:53:28 -0600 y...@marupa.net wrote: > Which probably demonstrates why there's no hidden agenda going on surrounding > systemd and there were legitimate reasons why it was finally chosen. Of course there were legitimate reasons, but only those reasons that are important for

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Brian
On Mon 03 Mar 2014 at 19:04:20 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The responses that I got from Samsung, were that their printers are > not compatible with Debian Linux, after Debian Linux 5. > > I had contacted Samsung. Manufacturers neglecting to continue support for equipment is nothing new. You choo

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 18:57:09, Bret Busby wrote: > > I think that it is unfortunate that we are apparently expected to > throw out all of our hardware (including printers and other such > accessories), and, replace it all, each time a new version of an > operating system, is released. http://en.wik

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 19:02:09, Bret Busby wrote: > >> > >>Whilst the device had been able to work with Debian 5, it simply > >>does not work with Debian Linux after Debian 5, other than using a > >>printer driver for, I think the Samsung CL317x series. > > > >Did you try splix? > > Couldn't get splix

Re: Help with GPT

2014-03-03 Thread Sven Hartge
ha wrote: > Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install > debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end > of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed > to install into /target/", or something like that. Now, I'm aware that > I

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Andrei POPESCU writes: > > I completely disagree. I had quite a nicely complex storage server > > with trunking and multipath things on, and it was sane and clean. > > Until one looks under the hood :( With "under the hood" you mean the assembler code? I did the configuration using the

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:52:40PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business purposes involve meeting SLAs so reboots once or twice a year can cost a lot of money - so in those circumstances a few minutes makes a lot of difference. Perhaps

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Fred Wilson writes: > What systemd brings is something usefull only for companies that has > money to pay for high-end servers, clusters, supercomputers I mostly disagree with this point of view, since these machine rarely stop. There could be some benefit in elastic provision ov VMs and i

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 14:29:16, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > Systemd can help a bit in making a little easier to have tools that > satisfy the (not so) basic need "to have this device mounted here if > it is plugged, otherwise go ahead with the bootstrap" for the > completely

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 03 March 2014 12:51:18 Brian wrote: > What rabbit do you expect Debian to pull out of the hat to fix a > closed source driver? You could always run your CLX3185FW with > Debian 5. :) Samsung does supply later drivers. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: Test

2014-03-03 Thread Brian
On Sun 02 Mar 2014 at 15:12:01 +, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 12:24:26PM +, Brian wrote: > > > The interesting questions involve what is happening on bendel after a > > mail is accepted. > > > > 1. Why is any mail delayed for 15 minutes before onward transmission? > > Co

Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Would it be possible for russia to maintain a classicdebian linux distribution and let the american and theircontroled european employees to waddle into the morassof systemd?Linus is half bought and paied for too, he uses fedora withall the mess. He was asked if he was asked to put in abackdoor int

Re: Re: After moving root partition to ssd, debian boots directly to runlevel 0 (shutdown)

2014-03-03 Thread Meier
> On 27/02/14 15:37, Meier wrote: >> In my laptop there is a SSD which I decided to finally use. So I made >> one big partition out of it, and copied my root file system onto it (cp >> -ax, while / was mounted read-only). My root filesystem includes /var >> but not /home or /boot. I'm using the act

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 03 mar 14, 14:29:16, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > > Systemd can help a bit in making a little easier to have tools that > > satisfy the (not so) basic need "to have this device mounted here if > > it is plugged, otherwise go ahead

Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Arnold Bird writes: > Would it be possible for russia to maintain a classic > debian linux distribution It would support the kremvax architecture but have some nietwork problems -- /\ ___Ubuntu: ancient /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_

Re: Help with GPT

2014-03-03 Thread ha
On 03/03/14 14:40, Sven Hartge wrote: ha wrote: Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed to install into /target/", or something li

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:59:06 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 mar 14, 10:40:52, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU writes: ... > > > Hibernation has it's own set of problems, especially as RAM sizes go up. > > > > I am interested in this issue. Could you tell some more about th

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:10:46 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... > Debian 6 apparently made most printers "paperweight" or "sopmetimes > works", in functionality. > > Something significant, changed between Debian Linux 5 and Debian Linux > 6, that reduced the functionality of the operating syste

Re: Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Reco
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 07:42:32 -0800 "Arnold Bird" wrote: > Would it be possible for russia to maintain a classic > debian linux distribution and let the american and their > controled european employees to waddle into the morass > of systemd? You're putting it wrong way. Everyone knows that in Sov

Re: Help with GPT

2014-03-03 Thread ha
On 03/03/14 10:33, ha wrote: Last few weekends I struggled with the GPT. I've tried to install debian 7.2 from live DVD (but booting from USB). However, at the end of installation I always receive the message "Grub-pc package failed to install into /target/", or something like that. Now, I'm awar

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/3/2014 7:30 AM, Fred Wilson wrote: Please look at what technical superiority of systemd consists of and then tell us if an ordinary user needs it. What systemd brings is something usefull only for companies that has money to pay for high-end servers, clusters, supercomputers and can get a c

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Tanstaafl
On 3/3/2014 7:28 AM, Fred Wilson wrote: I really don't see how 10 seconds or a minute more can hurt anyone. If you reboot more often, then it's different. But boot time is minor issue. My understanding about the fast boot times argument is that it was driven by Redhat and their work with virt

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 13:04:07, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/3/2014 7:28 AM, Fred Wilson wrote: > >I really don't see how 10 seconds or a minute more can hurt anyone. If > >you reboot more often, then it's different. But boot time is minor > >issue. > > My understanding about the fast boot times argument

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 mar 14, 11:27:59, Celejar wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Depending on RAM size and what you were running at the time you set your > > computer to hibernate it may just take longer to resume (i.e. read the > > stuff from slow storage) than to cold boot. This may have been solve

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/03/14 23:28, Fred Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my >> own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business >> purposes involve meeting SLAs so reboots once

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/03/14 23:28, Fred Wilson wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business purposes involve meeting SLAs so r

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Corporate Speak

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
All bullshit. Notice how the systemd men always talk in corporate speak. Says volumes. Your supposed contracts can go to hell. --- scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: From: Scott Ferguson To: Debian-User Subject: Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere Date: Tue, 04 Mar

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
I tried disabling udev today. Mouse and keyboard didnt work in X.org after that. This wasn't the case years ago. Another bunch of cruft required. It sucks. --- mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: From: Miles Fidelman To: Debian-User Subject: Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewher

Re: Four people troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 00:40, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:52:40PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> own personal computers my sentiments are similar. However my business >> purposes involve meeting SLAs so reboots once or twice a year can cost a >> lot of money - so in those circumstances

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 08:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 03/03/14 23:28, Fred Wilson wrote: >>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 Scott Ferguson >>> wrote: >>> Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my own personal computers my sentiments a

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
All bullsht. Notice how the system(c++) men always talk in corporate speak. Says volumes. Your supposed contracts can go to hell. --- scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: From: Scott Ferguson To: Debian-User Subject: Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere Date: Tue, 04

Re: Test

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
I also get this delays. Debian developers in the tech-ctte list were talking about deleting all anti-systemd mail as spam. Maybe they are going through the mails to make sure no more anti-systemd "trolling" gets through. They do not want anyone to question the victory. __

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:26:48 -0800 "Natural Linux" wrote: > System V is NOT hard to "maintain" > The scripts were written YEARS ago. They're fine. They do NOT need to > be changed. Debian SysV has concurrent boot aswell. Hey Natural Linux You and I are different. When I post, I put my real nam

Re: Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Russia is more traditionally minded these days, it looks like from the outside. USA is flip collar up, damn the consequences, individuals have no meaning (collateral damage (aka reckless and willful murder)), fuck the past, kinda asshole thinking. I hope russians would not wish to jump into a hol

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/03/14 08:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/03/14 23:28, Fred Wilson wrote: On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: Which is fine for you, and I can understand and appreciate that, for my own personal computers my sentiments ar

Re: Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Russia is more traditionally minded these days, it looks like from the outside. USA is flip collar up, da*n the consequences, individuals have no meaning (collateral damage (aka reckless and willful murder)), f*k the past, kinda as*h*le thinking. I hope russians would not wish to jump into a hole

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:54:33 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 mar 14, 11:27:59, Celejar wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > Depending on RAM size and what you were running at the time you set your > > > computer to hibernate it may just take longer to resume (i.e. read the > >

Re: was Four people troll

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
I wish I could do that with systemd but you people have forced your way and now stand at the top of every major linux distribution that exists. Yes, I fight to beable to pull my head out of the BS. You are intent on not allowing anyone that freedom. --- scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 03:19, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > Arnold Bird/Fred Smith/Troll writes: > >> Would it be possible for russia to maintain a classic >> debian linux distribution > > It would support the kremvax architecture but have some *nietwork* > problems > Very punny! :D Kind regards --

Words of Inspiration for a GOOD init

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Free init: *simple *clean *easy to use Visit OpenRC, or /etc/rc for your instant freedom from headaches. Even my email provider knows what is good in engineering and software, and what is bad. _ Free e-mail, simple, clean and easy to

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 09:32, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 04/03/14 08:41, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> Scott Ferguson wrote: On 03/03/14 23:28, Fred Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 12:52:40 +1100 Scott Ferguson > wrote: > >> >> We don't move to stable until it's bee

Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Is it not in the unfree repository? Alot of stuff was moved there. --- cele...@gmail.com wrote: From: Celejar To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Firmware stuff - was systemd fight Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:36:13 -0500 On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 17:10:46 +0800 (WST) Bret Busby wrote: ... >

Re: Troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
It's a good suggestion since for some reason even though most users hate the idea. most system admins hate the idea. SystemC incremented by one is being pushed by american and european people who have taken over key positions in every major linux distro. Once they take over they offer for all of

Re: Troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
It's a good suggestion since for some reason even though most users hate the idea. most system admins hate the idea. SystemC incremented by one is being pushed by american and european people who have taken over key positions in every major linux distro. Once they take over they offer for all of

Re: Troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
It's a good suggestion since for some reason even though most users hate the idea. most system admins hate the idea. SystemC incremented by one is being pushed by american and european people who have taken over key positions in every major linux distro. Once they take over they offer for all of

Re: Troll and systemd FUD

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
It's a good suggestion since for some reason even though most users hate the idea. most system admins hate the idea. SystemC incremented by one is being pushed by American and European people who have taken over key positions in every major linux distro. Once they take over they offer for all of

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Charlie Schroeder
- Original Message - From: Celejar To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:21:04 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:54:33 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 03 mar 14, 11:27:59, Celej

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
I myself do not like systemd either. Why don't I go use some other distro since a vote was won on some corner mailing list by a grand total of 4 people infavor and 4 people against about one week ago?? Well: Debian is the universal operating system. I shouldn't have to. Everyone, here it is a

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Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/03/14 11:02, Arnold Bird wrote: > I myself do not like systemd either. Bully for you. You've pointed that out, many times. Maybe using all those different names has further confused you - Fred Wilson, Natural Linux, NoStuffIdontUnderstand, etc, unless... it's all an act. -- To UNSUBSCRI

clean upgrade 32 -> 64?

2014-03-03 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
I'm about to replace one of my old 32-bit x86 Debian boxes with a 64-bit; I'll actually just be moving the disk drives out of the old box into the new one and doing any minor configuration changes that'll be neede (which will be very minor). So, while I'm at it, I'm curious -- is there any clean w

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Doug
On 03/03/2014 07:02 PM, Arnold Bird wrote: I myself do not like systemd either. Why don't I go use some other distro since a vote was won on some corner mailing list by a grand total of 4 people infavor and 4 people against about one week ago?? Well: Debian is the universal operating system. I

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Corporate Speak

2014-03-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 3/3/2014 5:12 PM, Arnold Bird wrote: All bullshit. Notice how the systemd men always talk in corporate speak. Says volumes. Your supposed contracts can go to hell. So says the guy who can't even reply to the list properly (in multiple instances)... Note that I am not necessarily a fan

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Systemd or the highway.

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
So because systemd people won, now after 13 years I have to leave and find another distro. This is BS. The systemd people do this is every single distro they take over. It is their way or the highway. I absolutely hate you systemd people. --- jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: From: Jerry Stuckle

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
Can't do it all myself. Debian was created by 1000s of people. The systemd people take over. They then say all anti-systemd debate is trlling or spm, and that anyone that doesn't like systemd has to go make their own linux distribution by themselves, no matter the fact that they, the systemd peo

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Once again, you rant multiple lists whilst hiding who you are. I am Zenaan Harkness. I have some (not all) strongly held views. As an aside, I shall use systemd and have tried a few times now, but have a technical issue or two with my setup when using systemd, which I need to find time to solve f

Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi everyone, I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools wouldn't be a good replacement because it has no concept of running things

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Sam Kuper
> --- dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: > From: Doug > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is > FINE. > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:27:23 -0500 > [...] > 1. Debian is *not* the universal operating system. After Windows and Mac >

Re: was Four people troll

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > I wish I could do that with systemd but you people have > forced your way and now stand at the top of every > major linux distribution that exists. Mr Arnatural Linux Bird, > Yes, I fight to beable to pull my head out of the BS. > You are intent on not allowing an

Re: was Four people troll

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > I wish I could do that with systemd but you people have > forced your way and now stand at the top of every > major linux distribution that exists. Mr Arnatural Linux Bird, > Yes, I fight to beable to pull my head out of the BS. > You are intent on not allowing an

Re: Words of Inspiration for a GOOD init

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > Free init: > *simple > *clean > *easy to use > > Visit OpenRC, or /etc/rc for your instant freedom from headaches. OK, just did that. But I'm still hearing you. Any other suggestions for my headache? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Systemd or the highway.

2014-03-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 3/3/2014 8:40 PM, Arnold Bird wrote: So because systemd people won, now after 13 years I have to leave and find another distro. This is BS. The systemd people do this is every single distro they take over. It is their way or the highway. I absolutely hate you systemd people. As I said -

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > All bullsht. Notice how the system(c++) men always talk in corporate speak. > Says volumes. Your supposed contracts can go to hell. At least they're _men_. I prefer humans, with speaking. I also like yoda, me he encouraged my inner dyslexic to embrace. -- To UN

Re: Could russians maintain a traditional linux debian? Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > Russia is more traditionally minded these days, it looks like from the > outside. > USA is flip collar up, damn the consequences, individuals have no meaning > (collateral damage (aka reckless and willful murder)), fuck the past, kinda > asshole thinking. > > I hope

Re: Replacing systemd

2014-03-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 04/03/14 02:50, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wouldn't be a good repla

Re: Four people decided the fate of debian with systemd. Bad faith likely

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/3/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/03/14 23:21, disbandtechc...@tfwno.gf wrote: >> Notice how the fknuts always try to change the tables. >> "It's YOU who are the shill!" > > OMG you're so right (lol) > > Not that I want to keep you from your work. > In all seriousness, the work of a

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE.

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > I myself do not like systemd either. > > Why don't I go use some other distro > since a vote was won on some corner > mailing list by a grand total of > 4 people infavor and 4 people against > about one week ago?? > > Well: > > Debian is the universal operating syst

Re: Proposal - preserve freedom of choice of init systems - SysV is FINE. Systemd won, sysV/OpenRC/etc fans must leave

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is called projection. The poster evidently has a very hard case of it. "The world is so mean. I didn't get what I want. So I'm going to keep crying publicly and say a bunch of untrue and severe exaggeratons." Oh well, hopefully time will heal... Zenaan On 3/4/14, Arnold Bird wrote: > Ca

Re: was Four people troll - now meandering off elsewhere - Systemd or the highway.

2014-03-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
By emailing each of the above email mailing lists, it's not hard to guess who you are. It is sad. It is in your interests (for sanity, to stop your tsunami of loss of respect, etc) to simply stop. Take a holiday. Come back in a time (weeks, months) that provides for you to return to communicati

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