Debian 6.2 and Systemd ?

2014-11-05 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
First posting here: I have been playing with GNU-Linux ever since Slackware came on a stack of 1.4 floppies, been using Linux on my desktop since 1999 (Mandrake 6.0), recently switched to a Debian derivative (SolydX) to get away from KDE, and am now thinking of going to Debian proper. Seems I h

Re: Debian 6.2 and Systemd ?

2014-11-05 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:31:52 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > - Is there a way in Debian to avoid using UUIDs ? > When I install, I set up partitions with labels. This avoids UUIDs and uses > labels instead. Many thanks; for setting the partitions with labels, is that an option in the install ?

Re: Debian 6.2 and Systemd ?

2014-11-05 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 11:49:57 + Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > When I install, I set up partitions with labels.  This avoids UUIDs and > > > uses labels instead. > > Many thanks; for setting the partitions with labels, is that an option in > > the install ? (Remember, I am new to Debian  ;-3) >

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 16:41:24 -0500 (EST) "Jason C. Taylor" wrote: > How is this not directly Debian realated? Certainly a discussion is "on > topic" if it's among users of Debian about Debian; whether they will continue > to use it or not; whether their decissions are based in technical, politi

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-06 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:24:13 +0100 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Let's attempt an analogy: if several members of a literature club > started to use the literature club room to (lively) discuss their common > interests in motorbikes, ice creams or ponytails, Your analogy does not hold water si

Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-10-31 Thread Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI
Today for the first times since I upgraded my Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I tried to use crontab; in Debian, it opened the file with vi, just as $DEITY had ordered it since the beginning of the world. Now under Devuan, crontab opens the file with nano, which I hate, abominate, pursue with