Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
> On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > Bartosz Olender writes: > > > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion > > > reminding that "GNU is *Not* Unix" > > > > May I recall that most of the systemd-haters knows the recursive > > expansion of GNU? > Most of

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/09/2014, Bartosz Olender wrote: > > Plan 9 is considered a "spiritual successor" to UNIX with it's > principles taken to the extreme. But it never took off, it's still > researched on but as I see it, besides researching how far we can push > this UNIX concept, I don't think we will see a

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/09/2014, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > « Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus » Eh, wot? I think that tellus is a brand of vacuum cleaner (is this something to do with cleaning some threads of messages off the list :) ? ). pede - well that sounds like a root of pedestrian.

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Clive Standbridge
> I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the > installer utilities say that it's not installed As Gary Dale has pointed out, you should probably be looking at packages names other than plain "wicd". > root@debian:~# which wicd > /usr/sbin/wicd This will tell you which pa

But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 16. September 2014, 08:46:36 schrieb Charlie: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:48:02 +0200 Martin Steigerwald sent: > > I have mixed thoughts and feelings about systemd… but on the other > > hand I think discussing this further here… is… a waste of time – as > > it won´t change anything. > >

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 16/09/14 at 03:39pm, Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/09/2014, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > « Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus » > > Eh, wot? > > I think that tellus is a brand of vacuum cleaner (is this something to > do with cleaning some threads of messages off the l

Re: /etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-09-12 06:34:58 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:03:25 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > If the local hostname is always resolvable by a 127.0.1.1 line in > > /etc/hosts or the machine is unlikely to dynamically change its > > hostname libnss-myhostname probably can be purged. > > 'Purge

Re: /etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2014-09-12 00:59:27 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:43:53 -0400 > Harry Putnam wrote: > The `hosts' entry: > > > > hosts: files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > > > What does all that mean? I understand `files' first and `dns' at the > > end but none of

docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Erwan David
Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by docker) require a graphical boot ? (and if following the the recommends, install desktop-base, on a server... ? SHould I report a bug against mountall ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 10:51:33 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by > docker) require a graphical boot ? It doesn't. > (and if following the the recommends, install desktop-base, on a > server... ? It doesn't. > SHould I report a bug a

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:30:08AM CEST, Brian said: > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 10:51:33 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by > > docker) require a graphical boot ? > > It doesn't. It does on testing (I should have precised). > > (and

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Linux-Fan
On 09/16/2014 09:56 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/09/2014, Bartosz Olender wrote: > > >> >> Plan 9 is considered a "spiritual successor" to UNIX with it's >> principles taken to the extreme. But it never took off, it's still >> researched on but as I see it, besides researching how far we can pu

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 11:32:03 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:30:08AM CEST, Brian said: > > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 10:51:33 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by > > > docker) require a graphical boot ? > >

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:24:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable > dependencies have nothing to do with Debian-Users, it's merely an > interesting discussion for developers. ISTM that such threads - with people who are actually using syste

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Reco
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:37:27AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 11:32:03 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:30:08AM CEST, Brian said: > > > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 10:51:33 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a serv

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/16 16:57 "Bret Busby" : > > On 16/09/2014, Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > > > > > « Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus » > > Eh, wot? > > I think that tellus is a brand of vacuum cleaner (is this something to > do with cleaning some threads of messages off the list :) ? ). >

Re: jessie installation

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Mon 15 Sep 2014 at 16:26:30 -0300, Adrián Orellana wrote: > I'm trying to install jessie amd64 and with the installer I got two > important issues: > 1st: when it asked me about non free drivers, I told him that there were in > an external device (usb), but it never saw after several attemps.

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/09/14 01:00, lee wrote: Shall we have a vote? AFAIK, there's nothing that would speak against having one, in this very mailing list. Why not ask the users? Why should only Debian developers be allowed to vote but not the users? Quite aside from the general DEbian principle of "do-ocrac

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 13:45:28 +0400, Reco wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:37:27AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 11:32:03 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:30:08AM CEST, Brian > > > said: > > > > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 10:51:33 +0200, Erwan David

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Erwan David
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:06:30PM CEST, Brian said: > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 13:45:28 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:37:27AM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 11:32:03 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:30:08AM CEST, Brian > >

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:51:33 +0200 Erwan David wrote: > > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as > recommended by docker) require a graphical boot ? (and if following > the the recommends, install desktop-base, on a server... ? > > SHould I report a bug against mountall ? A

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:35:10AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > If you're saying that the *Debian Host* is recommending Plymouth, that > should be reported as a bug against *something*. Plymouth is an > atrocity. Debian Host is not *recommending* plymouth, mountall *depends* on plymouth: http

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread John Hasler
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Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 13:26:33 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:06:30PM CEST, Brian said: > > > > mountall (2.10) lucid; urgency=low > > > > * Add hard dependency on Plymouth; without it running, mountall will > > ignore any filesystem which doesn't show up within a

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 05:16:32PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Sorry, I see only that he represented his views, which also happens to > coincide with my own. Please, if you have to label someone, you've lost your > argument's points from the get-go. :) Ric Also his views were known long before 19

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bret Busby wrote: Please remember, by virtue of its name, the mailing list appears to be a list for Debian users - for everyday, common, layman type users, like me, rather than people schooled in obscure concepts; users who may be seeking advice and assistance with day to day, layman type opera

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:00:40AM +0200, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Sorry? Should we add some dressing to the barbecue? O.K. I am not an > English native speaker. Not a good idea, it only causes eye watering smoke to billow everywhere. You are better off adding dressing to the food once it has

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:24:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable dependencies have nothing to do with Debian-Users, it's merely an interesting discussion for developers. ISTM that such threads - with people who are

mysql command waiting endlessly (lenny)

2014-09-16 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. On a old lenny, we have a software which have to connect to a server of the same LAN (we do not have physical access to any stuff, and we can only connect through ssh to that client computer), but when it connect through the mysql program, there is no prompt. Through the odbc program (

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:24:07PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this > > mailing list. > > Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable > dependencies

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:18:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > File a bug. Why would I? mountall is a part of upstart, and those Ubuntu guys can do all kinds of crazy foo for all I care. And for LXC I prefer using straight lxc tools over this python-infested hipster docker :) Reco -- To

Re: mysql command waiting endlessly (lenny)

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:08:23PM +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Hello. Hi, [...] > Does someone have any idea about what could be the problem, and/or how to > fix it? I suggest you'd be better off asking on a mysql support list, but be prepared to be flamed for not providing en

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep16:1203+0100, Martin Read wrote: > Debian users, on the other hand, are very much *not* a strongly-identifiable > group; there is no formal mechanism whatsoever for being endorsed as an > Official Debian User. As such, a vote "by the users" can, *at best*, be a > vaguely indicative straw p

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:20:04AM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Sep16:1203+0100, Martin Read wrote: > > > Debian users, on the other hand, are very much *not* a strongly-identifiable > > group; there is no formal mechanism whatsoever for being endorsed as an > > Official Debian User. As suc

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Doug
On 09/16/2014 03:00 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: And the GNU project started in 1984, so in the early '90 we already were working on bash an gcc and start enjoying the GNU version of some command in an improved Unix experience. AH! You said it yourself! "...an improved _Unix_ experience." (Emp

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Doug writes: > On 09/16/2014 03:00 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > And the GNU project started in 1984, so in the early '90 we already > > were working on bash an gcc and start enjoying the GNU version of > > some command in an improved Unix experience. > > > AH! You said it yourself! ".

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:24:07 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this > > mailing list. > > Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable > depende

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:17:19 +0200 Slavko wrote: > If yes, > then "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" ... Alas, poor Slavko ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: h

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Andre N Batista
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 09:54:12AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. September 2014, 08:46:36 schrieb Charlie: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:48:02 +0200 Martin Steigerwald sent: > > > I have mixed thoughts and feelings about systemd… but on the other > > > hand I think discussing thi

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Mike McGinn
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 12:17:19 Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:24:07 -0400 Steve Litt > > napísal: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 > > > > Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this > > > mailing list. > >

Re: Wheezy: pressing power button initiates a suspend in parallel with system halt

2014-09-16 Thread Iskren Mihaylov
Hi! I have the same problem. Could someone point us where to look? I am using Debian Wheezy Mate 1.8 on Asus K52JK laptop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debia

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Doug writes: > On 09/16/2014 03:00 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > And the GNU project started in 1984, so in the early '90 we already > > were working on bash an gcc and start enjoying the GNU version of > > some command in an improved Unix experience. > >

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Mike McGinn wrote: On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 12:17:19 Slavko wrote: Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:24:07 -0400 Steve Litt napísal: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this mailing list. Precisely. Bug

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/09/14 17:43, Andre N Batista wrote: I find your lack of imagination disturbing. So disturbing that I here and now propose a better approach: dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, his problem. For years to come people would remember what happens to those who try

Re: mysql command waiting endlessly (lenny)

2014-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > On a old lenny, we have a software which have to connect to a server of the > same LAN (we do not have physical access to any stuff, and we can only > connect through ssh to that client computer), but when it connect through > the mysql pr

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Joe
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:25:16 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Doug writes: > > > On 09/16/2014 03:00 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > > > > > And the GNU project started in 1984, so in the early '90 we > > > > already were working on bash an gcc and start enjoy

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Joe
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:25:16 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > Doug writes: > > > On 09/16/2014 03:00 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: > > > > > > > And the GNU project started in 1984, so in the early '90 we > > > > already were working on bash an gcc and start enjoy

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread st
lee wrote: Shall we have a vote? That's hardly necessary, seeing as how Debian developers have been disregarding their users' needs in the last few years. Vote all you want, of course, but it's obviously Shuttleworth and Pöttering, or maybe Microsoft or Satan Beelzebub behind them both who's g

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andre N Batista wrote: > dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, > his problem. Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Grimble left his mother in the

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Joe
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:25:16 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > > So... to whomever it was that said GNU is irrelevant, or words to > that effect... Debian, and most (all?) Linux distros are very much > dependent on GNU. Arguably, Debian is more intertwined with GNU than > with the Linux kernel (ca

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: > Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution currently > alive is a fair Unix-like GNU/Linux, stable as in "Debian Woody"', > though. Slackware, perhaps? Somehow I don't see Patrick embracing systemd, but I could be wrong. It has been years sin

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep17:0355+1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:20:04AM -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > > > The obvious question this leads to is, "Would some registration > > facility to enable non-developing users to support/inform > > decision-making by the DDs add meaningful value

speeding up sysvinit boot on Jessie

2014-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
I set up a Jessie VM (kvm: 1 cpu, 512MB RAM, qemu2 filesystem) to take a look at what is coming down the road. The default install with systemd as init boots very quickly. When I changed to sysvinit, boot times ended up around 32 seconds, and sometimes 47. Most of this time seemed to be taken u

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Joe
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:49:21 +0100 Joe wrote: Sorry about that, Claws seems to have developed hiccups, and has been firmly thumped on the back... -- Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Nemeth Gyorgy
2014-09-16 05:37 keltezéssel, tom arnall írta: > I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the > installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other > things tell a different story: > > root@debian:~# which wicd > /usr/sbin/wicd > root@debian:~# > [] >

Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be "clean"?

2014-09-16 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do not need to keep. My first question

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be "clean"?

2014-09-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/09/14 03:03 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be "clean"?

2014-09-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:03:41 -0400 Ken Heard wrote: > My first question is: although both drives are the same size, can I get > away with having one drive a Seagate 3.0 and the other Samsung 2.0? Indeed, this is a very recommended configuration, as HDz of the same brand (and much worse: same bra

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be "clean"?

2014-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. > I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement > a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do > not need to keep

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:47:22PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: ...snip... > > What the message is telling is that there is no package installed > called wicd. You need to find out (try searching > packages.debian.org) which package wicd is part of. Highly doubtful as synaptic lists

Re: speeding up sysvinit boot on Jessie

2014-09-16 Thread Brian
On Tue 16 Sep 2014 at 13:56:15 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I set up a Jessie VM (kvm: 1 cpu, 512MB RAM, qemu2 filesystem) > to take a look at what is coming down the road. I did the same as you but used a real machine. You didn't bother to say what you installed so I haven't either. > The default

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:20:46 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > Often in the past young people arrived screaming "We have the great > new thing that will change all", and a lot of "great new things" were > lost in time like tears in rain... Let's not make it about age. I bet I can find twenty

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:05:25 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: > > Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution currently > > alive is a fair Unix-like GNU/Linux, stable as in "Debian Woody"', > > though. > > Slackware, perhaps? > > Somehow I don't

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:12:44 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:49:21 +0100 > Joe wrote: > > Sorry about that, Claws seems to have developed hiccups, and has been > firmly thumped on the back... LOL, Claws sucks, but it's the best email client available. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/16/2014 01:36 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andre N Batista wrote: dox da madafuka hairy poetter and point these threads as his fault, his problem. Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. Threat? I couldn't figure out what he was saying, exce

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:36:51 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > Threats like this have absolutely no place on Debian mailing lists. Let it be, at this rate there will be blood (a lot) for Halloween ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-16 Thread koanhead
On 09/16/2014 03:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:05:25 -0500 Nate Bargmann > wrote: > >> * On 2014 16 Sep 12:51 -0500, st wrote: >>> Surely, I'd love to see the votes on 'What distribution >>> currently alive is a fair Unix-like GNU/Linux, stable as in >>> "Debian Woody"', th

Re: But there is a choice to not use systemd (war: Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community)

2014-09-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/16/14, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 16. September 2014, 08:46:36 schrieb Charlie: >> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:48:02 +0200 Martin Steigerwald sent: >> > I have mixed thoughts and feelings about systemd… but on the other >> > hand I think discussing this further here… is… a waste of t

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/09/2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: > >> >> Please remember, by virtue of its name, the mailing list appears to be >> a list for Debian users - for everyday, common, layman type users, >> like me, rather than people schooled in obscure concepts; users who >> may be seeking adv

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/16/14, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 11:47:22PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > ...snip... >> >> What the message is telling is that there is no package installed >> called wicd. You need to find out (try searching >> packages.debian.org) which package wicd is part

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Bret Busby wrote: On 16/09/2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Please remember, by virtue of its name, the mailing list appears to be a list for Debian users - for everyday, common, layman type users, like me, rather than people schooled in obscure concepts; users who may be seeking

Faking it with skype

2014-09-16 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down skype; the fix involving the use of a hex editor, to cause faking the skype version number, to pretend to be 4.3 (I think it is that version number that is needed), I am wondering whether anyone has successfully attempted

Re: Faking it with skype

2014-09-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/09/14 15:16, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > With the recently posted fix for the Microsoft attempt to close down > skype; the fix involving the use of a hex editor, to cause faking the > skype version number, to pretend to be 4.3 (I think it is that version > number that is needed), I am won

Re:Chinese factory of wire strip cut crimp machine debian-user

2014-09-16 Thread Cheers.Machine
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Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/15/14, tom arnall wrote: > I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the > installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other > things tell a different story: > > root@debian:~# which wicd > /usr/sbin/wicd > root@debian:~# > > Also, in spite of the ins