On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:47:37PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:50:27 + (UTC)
> Mitt Green wrote:
> > I
> > can't be sure about word processor, speaking of numerous AbiWord
> > issues.
>
> Honestly, if you can run MSWord under Wine, you'll have a better word
> processor th
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 02:38:13PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:57:25 +0300
> Mitt Green wrote:
> > I think we should count NetBSD here as the folks there
> > try to maintain the philosophy, keeping things simple
> > and minimal. I will write to them about it.
>
> If you can
Hi All,
I think, the majority of people opting to use a non-mainstream OS like
GNU/Linux do so for a good reason, and those who use it to look geeky
and to impress, simply cannot persevere when problems crop up and take
a good deal of effort to resolve. In the latter type of users, I
include 'geek
Today I was doing some work in AbiWord in Xubuntu
LiveCD, and having typed relatively big amount of text,
AbiWord simply crashed after freezing, not sure why; LibreOffice Writer did the
job much better, it also has
a gtk+ front-end.
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On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 20:31:27 +0100
Dragan FOSS wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Here are the distros I've heard of that
> > have taken an absolute stand not to*ever* default to systemd:
>
> If I may remind you ... Devuan did not even exist when TRIOS was
> released :)
>
> There are some more I believe. As Fredrik Rinnestam of
> CRUX said
> "Switch to systemd? over my dead body", we can count this.
>> Thanks. I didn't know this. I'll check it out.
Here's the message
https://lists.crux.nu/pipermail/crux-devel/2012-July/004039.html
>>> If you can actually inst
On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 21:57:25 +0300
Mitt Green wrote:
> There are some more I believe. As Fredrik Rinnestam of
> CRUX said
> "Switch to systemd? over my dead body", we can count this.
Thanks. I didn't know this. I'll check it out.
>
> I think we should count NetBSD here as the folks there
> t
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 16:06:40 -0300
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:47:37 -0500
> Steve Litt wrote:
>
> > Honestly, if you can run MSWord under Wine, you'll have a better
> > word processor than anything Linux has to offer. They all suck.
>
> Are you advising the use of softw
2015-11-02 19:48 GMT+01:00, Steve Litt :
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:02:53 +0100
> Teodoro Santoni wrote:
>
>> I prefer sc as spreadsheet,
>
> What's sc?
sc is a (n)curses spreadsheet program with weird controls. A copy can
be found on ibiblio [0], and in the wild (on github, which is rather
wild) th
Hi Daniel,
I saw you fixed a bug: in debian i always had to replace the repository
in 'sources.list.udeb' from 'unstable' to 'stable'...
Thanks for your good job !
Aitor.
On 11/02/2015 08:05 PM, Daniel Reurich wrote:
Hi Aitor,
I'm the maintainer of debian-installer for Devuan. I'm surpris
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 13:47:37 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> Honestly, if you can run MSWord under Wine, you'll have a better word
> processor than anything Linux has to offer. They all suck.
Are you advising the use of software that is neither free(1) nor free(2) ?
Cheers,
Ron.
1 As in beer
2 As
Hi Aitor,
I'm the maintainer of debian-installer for Devuan. I'm surprised to
hear of this only via the mailing list and have not seen an issue raised
against the package.
I will work on fixing this today.
Regards,
Daniel
On 03/11/15 07:51, aitor_czr wrote:
I've managed to build d
There are some more I believe. As Fredrik Rinnestam of
CRUX said
"Switch to systemd? over my dead body", we can count this.
I think we should count NetBSD here as the folks there
try to maintain the philosophy, keeping things simple
and minimal. I will write to them about it.
There is also Alpi
I've managed to build debian-installer. One of the issues arising was
the too obsolete version of libdebian-installer4-udeb in the
dependencies of main-menu.udeb (>= 0.101), preventing the instalation of
some packages. Now, i'm uploading a nonofficial liveCD of Devuan in
amd64, including Netman
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 18:02:53 +0100
Teodoro Santoni wrote:
> I prefer sc as spreadsheet,
What's sc?
SteveT
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On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:50:27 + (UTC)
Mitt Green wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in search for an office pack. Considering Gnumeric as a decent
> spreadsheet application (even better than LibreOffice's one?),
I know very little about LibreOffice Writer, but can tell you I use
Gnumeric on an almost dail
On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:57:23 +0800
Robert Storey wrote:
> > From: Nuno Magalhães
> >
> > Unfortunately it only allows you to search by package, leaving you
> > with a lot of non-linux and inactive distros - and no ranking.
> > But it's a nice feature.
>
> Yes, but biggest problem is that it miss
2015-11-02 16:50 GMT+01:00, Mitt Green :
> Hi,
>
> I'm in search for an office pack. Considering Gnumeric as a decent
> spreadsheet
> application (even better than LibreOffice's one?), I can't be sure about
> word
> processor, speaking of numerous AbiWord issues.
>
> LibreOffice has too many depend
Hi,
I'm in search for an office pack. Considering Gnumeric as a decent spreadsheet
application (even better than LibreOffice's one?), I can't be sure about word
processor, speaking of numerous AbiWord issues.
LibreOffice has too many dependencies, as well as AbiWord, while I'd like
to remain mini
Didier Kryn writes:
[...]
> Reporting readyness is admin-friendly, but this can be done
> trivially, in the s6 fashion; it does not take a library to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/367.html
https://isecpartners.github.io
> From: Nuno Magalhães
>
> Unfortunately it only allows you to search by package, leaving you
> with a lot of non-linux and inactive distros - and no ranking.
> But it's a nice feature.
Yes, but biggest problem is that it misses some good non-systemd distros
like Gentoo and Manjaro-OpenRC because
Le 02/11/2015 03:31, Go Linux a écrit :
I thought some of you might be interested in this post about the article posted
below:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=597967#p597967
I couldn't begin to understand the original treatise but could kind of follow
what tomazzi was saying. Any th
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