Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 08:44:22PM +, Luke Leighton wrote: > Gravis adaptivetime.com> writes: > > > > > > * returning to manual keyboard and mouse configuration in Xorg > > > > where did it move to before? > > i never removed the manual keyboard and mouse configuration > options that i

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 03:31:02AM +0200, Martijn Dekkers wrote: > > > > The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well > > debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? > > > > > You overestimate the amount of debugging that goes into in-car software. I >

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? the patching is done via IPC. --Gravis On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Vlad <2389...@gmail.com> wrote: > What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? > > On Feb 15, 2015 5:22 PM, "Jaromil" wrote: >> >> >> hi >> >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Vlad
What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? On Feb 15, 2015 5:22 PM, "Jaromil" wrote: > > hi > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@trash-mail.com wrote: > > >As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next > >Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well > debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? > > You overestimate the amount of debugging that goes into in-car software. I once had an Alfa Romeo with a buggy implementation for it's tiptronic gearbox.

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:28:38PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> > And I've rebuilt >> > util-linux and removed libsystemd0 already. >> >> ohh, you are so lucky! can i add you to the list of successes? > > Sure, if you want

Re: [Dng] recommendation for consideration: keep as close to debian as possible

2015-02-15 Thread T.J. Duchene
> possible From:Luke Leighton > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Date: Today 01:44:25 PM > > > i believe you may be severely underestimating the workload that the > current debian maintainers handle. there are over 35,000 packages, > and i believe something like 1,000 maintainers. there

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:28:38PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 05:49:54PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > > wrote: > >> http://slashdot.org/submission/4203115/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Leighton
Dragan FOSS gmx.com> writes: > > > > i would be most grateful therefore if you could make it much more > > convenient for me to be able to do this, whilst still keeping all the > > debian, TDE and deb-multimedia repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list > > that i have today, by keeping the devuan p

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:07 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 05:49:54PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> http://slashdot.org/submission/4203115/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system >> >> if anyone would like to help get the word out, as a way to ac

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 05:49:54PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > http://slashdot.org/submission/4203115/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system > > if anyone would like to help get the word out, as a way to actively > engage more developers and end-users to give them

Re: [Dng] pre-alpha-valentine on qemu

2015-02-15 Thread yvesjv
Thanks Jaromil, Katolaz and the Devuan Team!  This must be the best news for 2015!! - Original Message - From: "KatolaZ" To: Cc: Sent:Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:37:41 + Subject:Re: [Dng] pre-alpha-valentine on qemu On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 02:52:12AM +, KatolaZ wrote: > Hi guys, > >

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Neo Futur
> http://slashdot.org/submission/4203115/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system > > if anyone would like to help get the word out, as a way to actively > engage more developers and end-users to give them their right to > choose what software to run, please do consider hitting the "+

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Dragan FOSS
> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:27:55 + > From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > To: dng@lists.dyne.org > Subject: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 > from debian and still maintaining a working desktop > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Leighton
Gravis adaptivetime.com> writes: > > > * returning to manual keyboard and mouse configuration in Xorg > > where did it move to before? i never removed the manual keyboard and mouse configuration options that i had installed years back. however as xorg has grown more features, one of them

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Leighton
karl please refresh and double-check the update for pulseaudio, i spotted that two mentions of libsystemd dev packages are still in the pulseaudio debian/control file. having removed those (locally) and reinstalled the resultant packages, i've just been able to successfully remove libsystemd0:amd6

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> No one pushing this seems to be really concerned with the security, or > the safety of the user interfaces. there are a few ways this could change. - a single senator/congressman has their ride hacked/bricked - several people die in fiery car wrecks from bad code or a virus - a self-propagating

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> * returning to manual keyboard and mouse configuration in Xorg where did it move to before? xorg.conf is something that should never go away. --Gravis On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Luke Leighton wrote: > aspodata.se> writes: > >> >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net>: >> > http://l

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? Well, what scares me it

Re: [Dng] recommendation for consideration: keep as close to debian as possible

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Leighton
T.J. Duchene gmail.com> writes: > > If I might add my opinion to the discussion, I will be very clear in saying > that even attempting to stay somewhat in sync with Debian is a waste of > valuable time and effort, and deserves a resounding “No” vote. haaang on... :) > the subject of systemd

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Leighton
aspodata.se> writes: > > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl.net>: > > http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ > > I'll try that. awesome. if you'd like to keep in touch (through this list if that's ok with the dng team?) i can perhaps advise if you get stuck. it would be in

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 15/02/2015 19:36, Nate Bargmann a écrit : * On 2015 15 Feb 07:33 -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: Meanwhile the devs can't eat their own dogfood because they're not utter noobs, and nobody wants the featurelist marketing is pushing. Indeed. I've followed Planet Debian for some time and do rea

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 15 Feb 07:33 -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > Meanwhile the devs can't eat their own dogfood because they're not utter > noobs, and nobody wants the featurelist marketing is pushing. Indeed. I've followed Planet Debian for some time and do read LWN semi regularly. It astonished me at fi

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jude Nelson
IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Gravis wrote: > Jude, > > i'm glad at least one of us is following the kdbus conversation. > advanced authentication is exactly what i wanted added to unix domain > sockets, so kdbus sound

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://slashdot.org/submission/4203115/removing-libsystemd0-from-a-live-running-debian-system if anyone would like to help get the word out, as a way to actively engage more developers and end-users to give them their right to choose what software to run, please do consider hitting the "+" button

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
Jude, i'm glad at least one of us is following the kdbus conversation. advanced authentication is exactly what i wanted added to unix domain sockets, so kdbus sounds nice as long as it works as advertised. as a POSIX enthusiast, i wish they had merely extended unix domain sockets so that it could

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Peter Maloney
On 02/15/2015 05:40 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: >>> Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! That would make it a circular dependency... and circular dependencies always kill themselves. :) Also, it (hopefully) won't depe

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jude Nelson
I think we're significantly overblowing the impact of kdbus. I've been following the development of kdbus, and kdbus alone is just another way to send bytes from one process to others. In a nutshell, it creates a namespace of special character files that have some interesting properties. Namely,

Re: [Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread karl
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ I'll try that. ... > the desktop that i run is *not* a normal one, by any means. i run > fvwm2 with a 6x4 virtual desktop, which is started up with "startx &" > - there is no display manager and i do not want

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: > > Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! > > i'm weary of KDBUS but live patching is something i consider too dangerous. > --Gravis But why would it have to depend on systemd? -- hendrik _

[Dng] successfully manually removing systemd and libsystemd0 from debian and still maintaining a working desktop

2015-02-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ if you recall, yesterday i mentioned that i do not take risks with my business-critical laptop... except by about 5am i had completed most of the process of doing precisely that. the desktop that i run is *not* a normal one, by any means. i r

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Go Linux
On Sun, 2/15/15, Steve Litt wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Sunday, February 15, 2015, 9:20 AM On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:04 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: [cut] Hi Nik, You paint a tempting

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! i'm weary of KDBUS but live patching is something i consider too dangerous. --Gravis On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:09 AM, wrote: > As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next Linux > release 4.0 instead of 3.20.

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:27:04 +0100 Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Hi Steve! > > When you remove all extra stuff from TDE then you end up with a sytem > thats still superior to XFCE. I'll just hilight the things I like > most (only the base system, not the extra applications): > - one cental configuriati

Re: [Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)

2015-02-15 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 14 Feb 2015, Isaac Dunham wrote: > I'm wondering what /etc/apt/sources.list looks like; I've tried pointing > mine at > deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan jessie main that is not yet ready, thats why is called pre-alpha : ) you can use debians to install more sw to test mate is pret

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jaromil
hi On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@trash-mail.com wrote: >As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next >Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering >why, but yea read that back a year ago. makes sense. >there is one quite radical feature hid

[Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread joerg
As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering why, but there is one quite radical feature hidden in the new version.- OverlayFS now supports multiple read-only layers.- Many Intel DRM graphics driver improvement

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 09:26:45AM -0500, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > > I agree that use of C has lessened, and that less of us understand C > today. I disagree that this is necessarily the cause of the problem. > Personally, I think that anything that *can* be written in Python, >

Re: [Dng] Please!! revive Bastille hardening tool for Devuan

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:16:42PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Isn't Bastille a set of scripts to harden Debian security? > Well, IMMHO, Devuan shouldn't need such a collection if said security > was default (which should be). I don't know what Bastille is supposed to do. But its security pro

Re: [Dng] About separate mailing lists

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:46:18PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Talking about something else, it seems that the list is becoming > > two-fold. On one hand, it becomes concentrated on development, while > > at the same time it discusses more philosophical issues. Maybe is it > > the moment to se

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 03:12:25PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I'd go for: > 1. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Negative-Galaxy-v1.5-SVG.svg > or a spinoff of this, seems sober and not too flashy, i like it > 2. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Devuan-D-Inspired-2.sv

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > which is required if you want to appeal to new users. > That's the problem with the obese DEs. Corporate marketing says all that matters is the noobs, oh and we need this list of features nobody actually uses for our marketing campaigns i

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 03:08:34PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Anthony G. Basile > wrote: > > eudev is used in gentoo and some other projects, like buildroot and crux. > > So i've noticed. what about devuan? Discussion so far seems to indicate that udev is goi

Re: [Dng] About separate mailing lists

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Talking about something else, it seems that the list is becoming > two-fold. On one hand, it becomes concentrated on development, while > at the same time it discusses more philosophical issues. Maybe is it > the moment to separate into a dev list and a users list? Nope. I think both being toget

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:17:36 -0600 "T.J. Duchene" wrote: > "John clearly states that he believes the problems are distinct from > systemd. While many here may not necessarily agree, I do agree that > various aspects of the system have become, if not complex, at least > more opaque than in the pas

Re: [Dng] Raspberry Pi 2

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Oddly enough, the Pi2 is camera shy and will blush on flash... http://www.neowin.net/news/a-camera-flash-will-make-the-raspberry-pi-2-freeze-and-reboot ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Jaromil wrote: > However, I don't think this is a priority now. I still cannot imagine > why someone would want to be strictly anonymous while accessing that. You can replace anonymous with systemd, you know? It's a matter of choice. ___

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Martijn Dekkers wrote: > Whilst I am still utterly amazed with how awesome Linux servers are, I don't > think we will ever get there with desktops. Diversity can be a strength, or a weakness. It's good to have diverse desktops (i dislike behemoths like GNOME and K

Re: [Dng] Please!! revive Bastille hardening tool for Devuan

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Isn't Bastille a set of scripts to harden Debian security? Well, IMMHO, Devuan shouldn't need such a collection if said security was default (which should be). Cheers, Nuno ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mai

Re: [Dng] Community polls on Devuan design

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I'd go for: 1. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Negative-Galaxy-v1.5-SVG.svg or a spinoff of this, seems sober and not too flashy, i like it 2. http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/File:Devuan-D-Inspired-2.svg if the swirl could be improved and, as a suggestion, the other letters

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 20:15:50 +0100 > Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > > > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > > > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Jude Nelson posted an

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > eudev is used in gentoo and some other projects, like buildroot and crux. So i've noticed. what about devuan? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailm

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread Nikolaus Klepp
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > > I concluded that

Re: [Dng] Some downgrades may be needed e.g. cups Re: Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-15 Thread office
Am Dienstag, 3. Februar 2015 schrieb Steve Litt: > On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:14:10 +0100 > Godefridus Daalmans wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Jude Nelson posted an enormous rdepends list, of what packages would > > need to be changed for Devuan Jessie,but from my own experimentation > > I concluded that

Re: [Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)

2015-02-15 Thread Jaromil
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, Alberto Zuin - Liste wrote: > Hi Jaromil, > thank you for the gift! and thank you for the giftlab! <3 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] pre-alpha-valentine on qemu

2015-02-15 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 02:52:12AM +, KatolaZ wrote: > Hi guys, > > a few simple steps to have Devuan-pre-alpha-valentine installed and > running on qemu: > > 0)# wget > "http://mirror.debianfork.org/devuan-jessie-i386-xfce-prealpha-valentine.iso"; > > 1)$ apt-get install qemu-kvm Well, n

Re: [Dng] pre alpha valentine (secret love declaration)

2015-02-15 Thread Alberto Zuin - Liste
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jaromil, thank you for the gift! Now, I personally hope that this can put an end to every flame about "the fake project" and "you ask for money for nothing". Have a nice weekend, Alberto Il 14/02/2015 9:36 pm, Jaromil ha scritto: > > re all, > >