Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-14 Thread Ralph Ronnquist via Dng
On 14/12 23:31, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:31:02PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > Le 13/12/2020 à 03:15, Steve Litt a écrit : > > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:53:35 +0100 > > > Didier Kryn wrote: > > > > > > > > >>     I don't make it an argument against xdm. Just cheating about y

Re: [DNG] What I learned at Distrowatch

2020-12-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 09:31:02PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 13/12/2020 à 03:15, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:53:35 +0100 > > Didier Kryn wrote: > > > > > >>     I don't make it an argument against xdm. Just cheating about your > >> own arguments (~: > > Didier, why didn't

Re: [DNG] Redhat EEEs CentOS?

2020-12-14 Thread John Crisp via Dng
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 23:47:39 -0800 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting vmlinux (vmli...@charter.net): > > > Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Shocking but not surprising. Even more > > reason for Devuan to exist. > > > > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/centos-shifts-from-red-hat-unbranded-to-red-hat-

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:15:26PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 13 December 2020 at 21:13:10, d...@d404.nl wrote: > > > It looks like systemd again is responsible for this mess. > > That is unexpected for me, since I am starting from a clean installation of > Devuan Beowulf - no upgrad

Re: [DNG] Ethernet names revisited

2020-12-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:20:25 +0100 Antony Stone wrote: > On Sunday 13 December 2020 at 13:02:45, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > > Am 13. Dezember 2020 12:01:39 MEZ schrieb Antony Stone > : > > > Well, here's the output from "dmesg | grep eth". It shows the > > > r8169 interfaces being gi

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-14 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Martin, Martin Steigerwald writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng - 13.12.20, 03:48:23 CET: >> Hi Hendrik, >> >> Hendrik Boom writes: >> > I wish everything user-configurable under /etc was under revision >> > control. then we might even be able to have a vendor branch and a >> > local branch. >> H

Re: [DNG] Version control /etc (was Re: Ethernet names revisited)

2020-12-14 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Dimitris, Dimitris T. via Dng writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote: >> >> Have a look at etckeeper. > > was using it for years, but not anymore.. > too much disk i/o, too many files, `git gc` never ran (only by hand), > and it never really came handy during those years... > > maybe storing