Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card computers

2016-07-26 Thread Thomas Besser
Am 26.07.2016 um 16:14 schrieb KatolaZ: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 03:53:22PM +0200, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: >> At the moment the Pi 2 beta image is ... well ... bare, even the main module >> bcm2835 is not installed by default. To be attractive to those new users we >> should have a imag

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 26/07/2016 13:28, fsmithred a écrit : On 07/25/2016 06:09 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 25/07/2016 23:35, fsmithred a écrit : Either way, it looks like libsystemd is passively providing code for something else to use. Calling a function does not mean that this function passively provides c

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-26 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 26/07/2016 12:59, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Didier Kryn writes: Le 25/07/2016 01:29, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : Sleeping on a contended mutex is implemented in this way. But that's supposed to be an exceptional case. This is why, while advertizing itself as a cool "don't care" feature,

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/27/2016 01:57 PM, Simon Walter wrote: On 07/27/2016 01:54 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:10:00 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): On 07/27/2016 01:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): This is a must read on the p

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/27/2016 01:54 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:10:00 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): On 07/27/2016 01:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): This is a must read on the politics and votes that ensured a systemd future

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:10:00 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): > > > On 07/27/2016 01:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > > >Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): > > > > > >>This is a must read on the politics and votes that ensured a > > >>systemd future for debian: >

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): > On 07/27/2016 01:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > >Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): > > > >>This is a must read on the politics and votes that ensured a systemd future > >>for debian: > >>http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652 > > > >To my as

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/27/2016 01:56 AM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): This is a must read on the politics and votes that ensured a systemd future for debian: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652 To my astonishment and pleasure, I found this well argued, reasonable, a

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:35:25 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 07:58:19AM -0500, dev wrote: > > > Systemd isn't going to stop at just init. There are far to many > > opportunities to embrace, extend and extinguish entire > > distributions. > > A point of grammar: Wrong verb

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card, computers

2016-07-26 Thread aitor_czr
On 07/26/2016 04:42 PM, KatolaZ wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 03:53:22PM +0200, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: [cut] > >At the moment the Pi 2 beta image is ... well ... bare, even the main module >bcm2835 is not installed by default. To be attractive to those new users we >should have

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 07:58:19AM -0500, dev wrote: > Systemd isn't going to stop at just init. There are far to many > opportunities to embrace, extend and extinguish entire distributions. A point of grammar: Wrong verb tense. Systemd hasn't stopped at just init, -- hendrik __

[DNG] Full-sized ARM based computers

2016-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'd love to have devuan running on a home ARM server. So long I haven't seen suitable hardware. To replace my present server, I need something that has twp ethernet ports, can drive multiple SATA drives (two needed, four would be nice), has USB ports, and can be connected to a keyboard, mouse,

[DNG] Desktop Environments (was: Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless)

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
[I made an overdue Subject header change.] Quoting fsmithred (fsmith...@gmail.com): > I did try both of those, and we clearly have different tastes. My first > impressions of LXQt are that it's as pretty as IceWM (pretty ugly) at > twice the ram, but at least it has graphical configuration tools

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Rainer Weikusat (rweiku...@talktalk.net): > Rick Moen writes: > > Quoting Rainer Weikusat (rweiku...@talktalk.net): > > > >> To re-iterate this: > > > > [more very strangely worded, difficult-to-parse prose, seemingly alleging > > that library libsystemd0 can be used to insert 'calls' in

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting dev (devua...@gmail.com): > On 07/26/2016 04:26 AM, Rick Moen wrote: > > >libsystemd0's status as a bundle of interface code that does nothing in > >the absence of systemd is not because it's a library -- obviously -- but > >rather because all it _contains_ is interface code that does noth

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Go Linux (goli...@yahoo.com): > This is a must read on the politics and votes that ensured a systemd future > for debian: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=120652 To my astonishment and pleasure, I found this well argued, reasonable, and a good effort to cast light on a com

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Go Linux
On Tue, 7/26/16, Rick Moen wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 4:09 AM Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): > Did the Debian leadership do a poll to find out what their users > wanted and who were their typical users? To the ba

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 26/07/2016 09:27, Edward Bartolo a écrit : Simon Walker wrote: << Here's the thing: most users will be entirely happy with fully uncustomized systemd. It will suspend your laptop if you close the lid, and even give your download manager veto power. I fully support Debian's decision to use syst

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-26 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 12:07:31PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > I think you meant to write coroutines, not closures, as that's what go > adopted based on Hoare's 'Communicating Sequential Processes'. That's > also pretty 'old stuff'. It's also unfortunately an instace of something > which should

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: > Le 25/07/2016 23:35, fsmithred a écrit : >> Either way, it >> looks like libsystemd is passively providing code for something else to >> use. > Calling a function does not mean that this function passively > provides code to the caller. But the library does that (or at l

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:52:32 +0200, Stephan wrote in message <20160726t134403.ga.9b7e6.s...@fsing.rootsland.net>: > By the way, the systemd-shim package was orphaned in Debian (bug > #832508). Neither the current maintainers nor upstream are interested > in it anymore. ..can we use it (at least

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Edward Bartolo
dev wrote: << It seems I cannot have a functioning Apache system on Debian 8 without installing at least some minimal facet of systemd and that's problematic if not for any other reason than simply being an unnecesary dependency. What this all really illustrates is the insidious nature of systemd a

Re: [DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card computers

2016-07-26 Thread KatolaZ
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 03:53:22PM +0200, info at smallinnovations.nl wrote: [cut] > > At the moment the Pi 2 beta image is ... well ... bare, even the main module > bcm2835 is not installed by default. To be attractive to those new users we > should have a image available with a minimal desktop

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Ismael L. Donis Garcia
- Original Message - From: "Simon Walter" To: Sent: Monday, July 25, 2016 10:27 PM Subject: Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news On 07/26/2016 08:03 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:06:09PM +, hellekin wrote: On 07/25/2016 06:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: This is a screensh

[DNG] Raspberry Pi 2 and other ARM based credit card computers

2016-07-26 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
One of the fronts we can promote Devuan is on ARM based credit card computers like Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. Most users of these computers are new linux users and will have no opinion about systemd but if they can get a fast booting small system they surely will appreciate that. And especially the

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/26/2016 09:58 PM, dev wrote: On 07/26/2016 04:26 AM, Rick Moen wrote: libsystemd0's status as a bundle of interface code that does nothing in the absence of systemd is not because it's a library -- obviously -- but rather because all it _contains_ is interface code that does nothing in

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread John Crisp
On 26/07/16 03:27, Simon Walter wrote: > > I have a question about what Simon Richter said on his > blog(http://www.simonrichter.eu/blog/2016-03-03-why-sysvinit.html): > > "Here's the thing: most users will be entirely happy with fully > uncustomized systemd. It will suspend your laptop if you c

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread dev
On 07/26/2016 04:26 AM, Rick Moen wrote: libsystemd0's status as a bundle of interface code that does nothing in the absence of systemd is not because it's a library -- obviously -- but rather because all it _contains_ is interface code that does nothing in the absence of systemd Well now, i

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 02:09:42AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: I personally wish there _had_ been pondering of a guiding plan at this point -- and that the Project had decided to dump GNOME, which would have made the original problem go away. Unfortunately, that was not the Maybe this problem, but

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/26/2016 06:09 PM, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): Did the Debian leadership do a poll to find out what their users wanted and who were their typical users? To the based of my recollection, no. To be clear, in the blog passage you quoted, Simon Richter (whoever

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread fsmithred
On 07/25/2016 06:09 PM, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 25/07/2016 23:35, fsmithred a écrit : >> Either way, it >> looks like libsystemd is passively providing code for something else to >> use. > Calling a function does not mean that this function passively provides > code to the caller. What happens

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Rick Moen writes: > Quoting Rainer Weikusat (rweiku...@talktalk.net): > >> To re-iterate this: > > [more very strangely worded, difficult-to-parse prose, seemingly alleging > that library libsystemd0 can be used to insert 'calls' into unrelated > applications -- which assertion in my view does no

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Jaromil writes: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> Didier Kryn writes: >> > Le 22/07/2016 18:21, Brian Nash a écrit : >> >> For example, when I discovered multithreading, all my programs used it >> >> in some way, even when it was unnecessary. >> > >> > I sometimes use multithreadi

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-26 Thread Rainer Weikusat
Didier Kryn writes: > Le 25/07/2016 01:29, Rainer Weikusat a écrit : >> Sleeping on a contended mutex is implemented in this way. But that's >> supposed to be an exceptional case. > > This is why, while advertizing itself as a cool "don't care" > feature, a mutex is problematic: I don't know

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread fsmithred
On 07/25/2016 05:57 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > If you ever feel like trying a less-brittle Desktop Environment ('DE'), > consider LXQt or Enlightenment. (A more-radical step would be no DE at > all, which is my personal preference. To me, a DE is a goulash of apps I > want with ones I don't, so I se

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk): > And you've gone on to keep extrapolating that "that's all a library does". No, that's all that _this_ library does. And, no, I did not 'extrapolate' anything. If you think so, you didn't read what I wrote correctly, and ought to fix that. libsys

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Simon Walter (si...@gikaku.com): > Did the Debian leadership do a poll to find out what their users > wanted and who were their typical users? To the based of my recollection, no. To be clear, in the blog passage you quoted, Simon Richter (whoever _he_ is) _didn't assert_ that Debian P

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Hobson
Rick Moen wrote: >> OK, that's what I thought, which is at odds with some comments that have >> been made. > > Well, if you're referring to 'comments that have been made' about > libsystemd0, the more useful (IMO) comments characterised what is > actually present in that library, that it contai

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/26/2016 04:27 PM, Edward Bartolo wrote: Simon Walker wrote: << Here's the thing: most users will be entirely happy with fully uncustomized systemd. It will suspend your laptop if you close the lid, and even give your download manager veto power. I fully support Debian's decision to use syst

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Simon Walter
On 07/26/2016 03:45 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:27:20 +0900 Simon Walter wrote: We need to drive a wedge into the FOSS community and separate the desktop users from the professionals. I am sorry to be divisive, but the water is under the bridge and the damage has already been

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Edward Bartolo
Simon Walker wrote: << Here's the thing: most users will be entirely happy with fully uncustomized systemd. It will suspend your laptop if you close the lid, and even give your download manager veto power. I fully support Debian's decision to use systemd as the default init for new installs, becaus

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Joel Roth
Steve Litt wrote: > I wouldn't split it desktop/server or desktop/professional. It didn't > split that way. Very truthfully, it split smart guys vs dumb guys, with > the dumb ones remaining in Debian. I think you're conflating being intelligent with having values similar to your own. Debian and o