Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.

Am 13.01.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Steve Litt: [snip] > * OpenBSD now has hardware assisted virtual machines and is a great > and stable "Linux". sed 's/Linux/Unix-like OS/' Also, there's a considerable (non-technical) difference between what GNU+Linux distributions like Devuan on the one side and

Re: [DNG] listing partitions conveniently

Am 31.12.2017 um 00:32 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > Disk partitions seem to have many names. THis is convenient, but also > confusing. > > Names might be > the current mount point > the mount point mentioned in /etc/fstab (usually, but not always, the > same) > the /dev/disk/by-uu

Re: [DNG] Devuan releases and roadmap

Am 28.12.2017 um 14:45 schrieb Mike Tubby: [...] > Reading the 'Release Information' at: > > https://devuan.org/os/releases > > it is not terribly clear to me exactly which Debian 'Jessie' the Devuan > 'Jessie' is built upon - the reason for this is that Debian has 'point > releases', e.g 8

Re: [DNG] Devuan in the German Wikipedia

Am 19.12.2017 um 10:23 schrieb Jaromil: > > dear Michael, > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Michael Siegel wrote: > >> 1. >> The intro paragraph says: >> "Erklärtes Ziel ist es, nicht den umstrittenen systemd-Dienst als >> 'init'-Prozess fe

[DNG] Devuan in the German Wikipedia

Hi there, I have just discovered an article on Devuan in the German Wikipedia today: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan While that article is more extensive than the one in the English version, it has some serious flaws that should be addressed in one or another way. 1. The intro paragraph sa

Re: [DNG] fvwm

Am 23.08.2017 um 09:31 schrieb Harald Arnesen: > Steve Litt [2017-08-22 23:59]: > >> As far as #1, what the hell does "session" mean? A session is something >> that runs for awhile, and usually the implication is it's already >> running. I think the word "session" needs to be changed to "GOSFUI".

Re: [DNG] openbox-themes in ASCII?

Am 21.08.2017 um 21:57 schrieb fsmithred: > On 08/21/2017 08:59 AM, Michael Siegel wrote: >> Am 18.08.2017 um 16:04 schrieb fsmithred: >> >> What exactly do you mean by "some themes don't work"? I use obconf >> for setting the wm theme and gtk-theme-swi

Re: [DNG] openbox-themes in ASCII?

Am 18.08.2017 um 16:04 schrieb fsmithred: > I downloaded the wheezy source and built a package on ascii pretty > easily last night. Didn't change anything. Nice. But the package meta data would have to be revised for an official Devuan package, I guess. > Some themes work, some don't, and they

[DNG] openbox-themes in ASCII?

In Debian Wheezy, there was a package called openbox-themes (https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/openbox-themes), offering a pretty nice collection of themes for the Openbox window manager, some of them coming with matching GTK2 themes. Unfortunately, this package has been dropped with the release o

Re: [DNG] Devuan presentation at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (Germany) 2018?

Am 12.08.2017 um 22:16 schrieb Evilham: >> * Giving a talk of about 30 to 45 minutes and answering questions >> from the audience for another 30 or 15 minutes respectively >> >> * Having a booth in the exhibition area of the building where >> people can come by, inform themselves, ask questions,

[DNG] Devuan presentation at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (Germany) 2018?

There is a pretty big (2500-3000 visitors) Linux/FOSS event taking place in Chemnitz (Germany) in March. It's called Chemnitzer Linux Tage (Chemnitz Linux Days) and has been held annually since 1999. The project's website can be found at https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de. The "About Us" pa