Re: [DNG] hashtag retarded

2016-05-09 Thread Mitt Green
LOLOL > spreads nonsensical bullshite > wonders why he's not welcomed Good job of making a cod of yourself, waggon. Reply to the list, otherwise you're a colleen, irresponsible for her words. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.

[DNG] hashtag retarded

2016-05-08 Thread Mitt Green
LOL that self-centric poof[1], that tells people ‎what to do[2], has #gnome in one row with #geek[3]. Don't forget to add #mentallychallenged, Laurent Bigotville. [1]:https://twitter.com/bigonbe [2]:https://twitter.com/bigonbe/status/729032669254844420 [3]:http://imgur.com/PLoVJTI

Re: [DNG] Why I was away.

2016-05-06 Thread Mitt Green
the rant. They, though, seem to be quite popular here. / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan (and Windows)

2016-05-03 Thread Mitt Green
‎Steven W. Scott wrote: ‎ > Wow. Funny that, my view is:‎ > Windows: Gaming > Linux: everything else I am kind of a "hardcore" gamer, nowadays especially in Sauerbraten and Urban Terror, back then in RedEclipse, I actually think that the situation with games is good. Count here 0 A.D., Battle for

Re: [DNG] OpenRC and Devuan

2016-05-02 Thread Mitt Green
> The current init system is old. Ancient. > We should all agree on it. Devuan is looking > for a new init system that is not systemd and my > personal choice for this task from now on is > Gentoo's OpenRC. ‎ Unix is old. Ancient. We should all agree on it. Devuan is looking for a new base system t

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-26 Thread Mitt Green
Steve Litt wrote: > International Conference on Chemistry and > Chemical Process? That's what I found for > this acronym. It's ICCCM, a.k.a. I39L, Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual, a standard for window managers [1]. / Mitt [1]: https://en.wikip

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-25 Thread Mitt Green
SpaceFM with udevil automounts external devices. Removing gvfs also means no automount in Thunar, apart from losing wastebasket. udevil works from console, too. / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin

[DNG] software that sucks

2016-04-25 Thread Mitt Green
aitor_czr wrote: Seeing that the kde project switched to cmake i guess it might be not so ugly aswell. I suppose, KDE shouldn't be a role model :) KatolaZ wrote: Seeing that 90% of free software uses autohell I guess it might be not so ugly :) These 90% don't know, such an ugly thing t

Re: [DNG] Gtk Development

2016-04-24 Thread Mitt Green
. CMake is written in C++, too, and is big and slow. It's even worse than Autohell. Sorry for my allergy to cee plus plus. It spreads to HTML ‎emails, too. / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-24 Thread Mitt Green
y have - Flux-/Black-/Openbox, FVWM, Jaysus, even Xfwm and Metacity do, too. > In this thread, does Xfce qualify? Does LXDE? > Openbox? Dwm? Xfce - a DE. LXDE - a DE. Openbox - a WM. dwm - a WM. > It's just something to think about. It doesn't even matter. / Mitt ___

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-24 Thread Mitt Green
wn panel, file manager, task manager, appearance settings programme, desktop and session. So, 'tis an environment definitely. My two, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] funny little program

2016-04-24 Thread Mitt Green
Rainer Weikusat wrote: People who may not know it yet but who are (like me) prone to inverting two letter command names every once in a while might want to have a look at the sl package/ program. https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck (package exists in the repos) https://twitter.com/liamosaur/statu

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-22 Thread Mitt Green
Simon Walter wrote:‎ > If by desktops you mean DE, then I thought some > have some dependencies  on systemd by way of the > included packages. DE vs. window manager. > There is a big difference. By desktops I mean DEs, and none of I have ever met have hard dependency on systemd. They have kind of

Re: [DNG] Which desktops work without systemd

2016-04-21 Thread Mitt Green
‎Rob van der Putten wrote: > Which desktops work without systemd? > A list would be nice. Every desktop environment is known to work without systemd. GNOME3 works on Funtoo, Slackware, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD. It depends on the distribution itself.

Re: [DNG] What do we want for ascii ?

2016-04-21 Thread Mitt Green
hellekin wrote: > Thanks Mitt. That means it would be candidate > for the contrib component, right? (Which is not > supposed to be part of Devuan.) Frankly, no idea. ‎I have never used Skype, nor have a Microsoft account (removed right after throwing away my Lumia; smartphones suck b

Re: [DNG] What do we want for ascii ?

2016-04-21 Thread Mitt Green
inat/apulse / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?

2016-04-15 Thread Mitt Green
anything; "apt upgrade" never installs or removes unmet dependencies; "aptitude full-upgrade" is similar to "apt dist-upgrade". Cheers, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Debian is no longer GNU/Linux?

2016-04-14 Thread Mitt Green
Nuno Magalhães wrote:‎ > As is a lot of everything else...? I pointed out, that not by Canonical. Certainly,  pretty much everything out there is made by a community. / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-

Re: [DNG] suspend

2016-04-12 Thread Mitt Green
Rainer Weikusat wrote: Yenta or Yente (Yiddish: יענטאַ‎) is a Yiddish designation for a woman who is a gossip or busybody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenta I don't think this was supposed to be a compliment. But I don't think he thought of insulting someone...

Re: [DNG] suspend

2016-04-12 Thread Mitt Green
n't find a word of "insult" from Mr Baum and no self-centred behaviour of Go Linux (by the way, would love to know the name but don't demand). This is in case if my two cents are counted. / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] suspend

2016-04-12 Thread Mitt Green
sending were sent by me earlier in the list and thus were tested. I didn't incorporate the use of any kind of display manager though, neither then, nor do now. Cheers, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] suspend

2016-04-11 Thread Mitt Green
- [restart] Identity=unix-user:*  Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart  ResultAny=yes  [stop]  Identity=unix-user:*  Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop  ResultAny=yes -- / Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Debian is no longer GNU/Linux?

2016-04-11 Thread Mitt Green
Hendrik Boom wrote: Canonical seems also th have bee floating the BSD banner lately. It's just possible that's related to the hard-to-find Debian BSD project. If you mean ubuntuBSD, it's made by a community. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org h

[DNG] Debian is no longer GNU/Linux?

2016-04-11 Thread Mitt Green
I've just visited the DW page[1], which says: Debian (formerly Debian GNU/Linux) I couldn't find any information on that. Maybe ye have some? I'd rather prefer these: systemdebian, Debian systemd/Linux, Deb Hat, Debora/Dedora, Fedorian. (sorry, couldn't resist) P

Re: [DNG] Enlightenment anyone? ;)

2016-04-07 Thread Mitt Green
after a while it became really nice. Also, system wide RAM usage for me then was amazing, around 80MB on boot without loaded apps. This was normal for Xfce in Debian Squeeze. Just my two eurocents, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https:/

Re: [DNG] ...and when trolling went too far

2016-04-06 Thread Mitt Green
Rainer Weikusat wrote: > BTW, did someon ask the donkey for > permission to put his image on this ‎page? It's from her Instagram. Look up @sexy_ass95 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] ...and when trolling went too far

2016-04-04 Thread Mitt Green
Boruch Baum wrote: You know what. How about this. Think of systemd as that girlfriend you broke up with. You've decided to dump systemd, so be done with it. Leave it behind and move on. It's over. If you can't forget about her, its not over, and frankly, something in your head is messed up.

Re: [DNG] ...and when trolling went too far

2016-04-04 Thread Mitt Green
than 5%, because the machine will not reboot. There are actually many, many insane design solutions, for more, as I said, refer to their changelogs. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] ...and when trolling went too far

2016-04-04 Thread Mitt Green
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lennart_Poettering&oldid=703955376 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] A lot of packages missing from repository

2016-04-01 Thread Mitt Green
sources.list deb http://angband.pl/debian/ nosystemd-unstable main Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] A lot of packages missing from repository

2016-03-26 Thread Mitt Green
week) in Ceres because Debian dropped SHA1. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] minor packaging quibbles in devuan cli

2016-03-22 Thread Mitt Green
;? "Most users", I reckon, don't care, whether they are running systemd or not. Just my two penn'orth. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] minor packaging quibbles in devuan cli

2016-03-22 Thread Mitt Green
Daniel Reurich wrote: > *buntu users apparently.. *buntu users use *buntu :) > Indeed. And you have that option to > skip creating users in the "expert > install" method. So, this "expert install" has much more capabilities, why

Re: [DNG] minor packaging quibbles in devuan cli

2016-03-22 Thread Mitt Green
tial setup of the particular system. It's implied in CRUX and Slackware; BSDs maintain the same method, I believe. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] minor packaging quibbles in devuan cli

2016-03-21 Thread Mitt Green
uppose, 'tis still not there. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Insufficient signing of repositories

2016-03-21 Thread Mitt Green
/apt/lists/packages.devuan.org_merged_dists_unstable_InRelease: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 72E3CB773315DFA2E464743D94532124541922FB (weak digest) -- The repositories are not available. I am using Ceres/Unstable. Mitt ___ D

Re: [DNG] Where to get beta?

2016-03-19 Thread Mitt Green
ttps://devuan.org website > showing how to join the mailing list, how to join > the IRC channel(s), and how to download the > beta and the latest alpha (4, isn't it?). +1 // Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Microsoft upgrades Windows 7 to 10 without permission

2016-03-15 Thread Mitt Green
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4a0asv/warning_windows_7_computers_are_being_reported_as/ There is strong language in the comment section. Some report, the upgrade breaks bootloaders. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https

Re: [DNG] OT: Assembly resources

2016-03-07 Thread Mitt Green
://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/assembly-resources-4175573485/ Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] OT de.wikipedia

2016-03-07 Thread Mitt Green
uan] enthält Häresie: "Devuan does provide systemd, but it is not the default init system." Es tut nicht, wir haben systemd-pinning. Mitt P.S. I hope, you understand my broken Deutsch :) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailing

[DNG] Claywand dosplay bananager

2016-03-06 Thread Mitt Green
This question is long-standing, but I forget to ask it. What's wrong with Wayland? I never used it, except for a couple of broken Fedora Live sessions, when everything freezes. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyn

Re: [DNG] Dependency Hell: was leveldb support proposal

2016-03-02 Thread Mitt Green
all -D. So, instead of make install, ye use this. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Digital camera management borked

2016-03-02 Thread Mitt Green
There's Shotwell, that had been working for me for quite some time. It's a photo organiser, and may help. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] OT: Assembly resources

2016-03-02 Thread Mitt Green
Thanks for the advice and the links, Emiliano. I appreciate it. Peace, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] OT: Assembly resources

2016-03-01 Thread Mitt Green
yasm? If we consider the three, gas, nasm and yasm, which one is, say, preferred by many and why? Mitt P.S. Accidentally sent this to dng dash request at lists dot dyne dot org. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-

Re: [DNG] Enlightenment anyone? ;)

2016-03-01 Thread Mitt Green
https://twitter.com/ShitDevuanSays/status/699623023188561922 Those RH/GNOME3 trolls don't seem to like E :( ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] vdev packaging effort ( was: state of what's working for modern desktop usage)

2016-02-29 Thread Mitt Green
ery simple and clean curses interface. Hope this helps, Mitt References: [1]: https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/vdev [2]: https://github.com/jcnelson/vdev/blob/master/how-to-test.md ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglis

Re: [DNG] leveldb support proposal

2016-02-29 Thread Mitt Green
Why would someone go personal out of nothing is still uncertain to me. Seems like, ignoring things ye don't admire is a real issue nowadays. Frankly, in communities I have ever participated, and believe me, there are galore, I've never seen such, but in Debian-related. My two eurocents. _

[DNG] OT: Assembly resources

2016-02-28 Thread Mitt Green
ocuses on Windows, and has explanations of algebra and other maths. So, maths resources would be great too. Thanks in advance, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Speaking of Window Managers

2016-02-27 Thread Mitt Green
Dell Inspiron but it doesn't work and I don't care. >Hotkey to close a window (Alt+F4 sucks in my opinion) Ctrl+Alt+x, default in cwm and very handy, in my opinion. My €0.02, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-25 Thread Mitt Green
Hendrik Boom wrote: >I cannot find a tde. Does it have another nae, or does it still need >to be packaged? They have repos, check this out: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-25 Thread Mitt Green
ese new shiny things is growing. We will end up forking GTK+2 and Xfce. GTK+3 is not a "successor" (ToZ), more like a "failessor". Strive to the left column - http://killx.linuxbbq.org/ =P Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] The first FreeDesktop bicycle accessory

2016-02-23 Thread Mitt Green
> Raised $5,076 of $70,000 > Five days to go > Estimated delivery: Mar 2017 > Receive it for donating $50 ... But hey, 'tis Kickstarter. If ye browse popular projects, ye'll see, how much of unnecessary rubbish is there (see also [yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com](http://yourkickstartersucks.tumb

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-02-20 Thread Mitt Green
ning on how poor architecture is, and so on, ye know. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd==bad

2016-02-20 Thread Mitt Green
our fault. Luckily, there is no (good) software that relies on systemd. Anyway, no one has an excuse for creating such poor solutions and promoting them. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Enlightenment anyone? ;)

2016-02-18 Thread Mitt Green
de Debian related. I'm glad that you enjoy E :) My €0.02, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-17 Thread Mitt Green
Revision 8.25-2 disables default quoting now. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit

2016-02-17 Thread Mitt Green
Hi, In case you haven't read this, Denys Vlasenko tells about his experiences with sysvinit. There he refers to daemontools and runit as superior to the traditional init. https://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html Mitt ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Mitt Green
>Pipes and files. Oh, aye, how could I forget this :( ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Mitt Green
ame: unwanted slashes and quotes. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Mitt Green
levant bug is >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813164 For God's sake, look, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ronnie James Dio & Tim ''Ripper'' Owens - Mr. Crowley.mp3 became 'Yngwie Malmsteen, Ronnie James Dio & Tim &#x

Re: [DNG] Coreutils 8.25 ls output

2016-02-16 Thread Mitt Green
No idea, why they did it, but anyway, who uses whitespaces in names of scripts? I always get rid of them even when naming wallpapers. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Enlightenment anyone? ;)

2016-02-14 Thread Mitt Green
"The history of bloat: 2008 - KDE 4 2011 - GNOME 3 (and Unity, Cinnamon etc.) 2015 - Xfce 4.12 Enlightenment: 'We have been making bloat since 1997'" :P ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] 27 more months for systemd-free Wheezy

2016-02-13 Thread Mitt Green
, Unity and systemd appeared. It made sense galore, since most of development went to "innovative solutions", "user-friendliness" and some other excuses for writing poor code. Wheezy, by the way, has libsystemd-logind or something alike in the default GNOME3 installation. Long l

Re: [DNG] Docker leaves Ubuntu for AlpineLinux (and hires its dev)

2016-02-11 Thread Mitt Green
‎     Jaromil wrote: >Or am I the only one seeing a "systemd sucks" here w‎ritten with invisible ink? Looking at comments there, it seems it's about the size of the system and systemd is definitely too big for them, just as the whole GNU userland and glibc in

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-09 Thread Mitt Green
psk="yourpsk" } dhcpcd is a daemon itself, hence the name (DHCP client daemon). I saw your message about NetworkManager that modifies resolv.conf, dhcpcd does it by default, unless you put "nohook reso

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-09 Thread Mitt Green
goes to C++. There are reasons for it, this is another topic/rant/flamewar. Qt is, in my opinion, slow and bloated (unless it's KDE3 and Qt3 :) ). My two penn'orth, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] state of what's working for modern desktop usage

2016-02-09 Thread Mitt Green
together. My two pennies, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Vote for/against netman name change

2016-02-05 Thread Mitt Green
‎YES ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Change netman into another name.

2016-02-03 Thread Mitt Green
aitor_czr wrote: >'Netconman' is very similar to the existing 'connman', and >'Network Connections Manager' is too long. Okay, maybe connetman then? :) >Another choice: >*nm-tools* nm-tool is a binary, p

Re: [DNG] Change netman into another name.

2016-02-02 Thread Mitt Green
Edward Bartolo wrote: >I am suggesting this name: >nm-devuan for network manager Devuan. I don't think it should contain Devuan word in it, as long as people from other communities will probably use it too. netconman for Network Connections Manager would be nice. My two

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-01-31 Thread Mitt Green
the very early days of my Debian experience and have never installed it again. APT and dpkg do the job great for me, I very rarely open  Synaptic. Deborphan is nice to manage retained unnecessary packages and configurations. My €0.02, Mitt ___ Dng mailin

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-01-30 Thread Mitt Green
e tab with it. Needless to say, you can't use it in a client. Their mobile and desktop appsare in development though.Farewell,Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-01-30 Thread Mitt Green
way to prevent a package from being installed in Unstable/Ceres: = ‎ Package: [package name]  Pin: release a=* [or o=*] Pin-Priority: -1 = >Systemd is not on the system, so where did systemd-logind come from? systemd-logind is provided by systemd pack

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
a month ago: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20151202.105920.e7d97bbc.en.html // Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
Forgot the link to the message: https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20151202.111959.bb508dfd.en.html ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
;t see the presence of the package. Sorry and thanks, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Are my messages delivered?

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
I have noticed, that Go Linux' messages were not delivered to me, yet they are shown on the site (lists.dyne.org). And my spam folder is empty. I am using Yahoo!Mail as well, and wonder, whether my emails are delivered. Mitt ___ Dng mailing lis

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
that user either has to recompile the package, removing dbus from control, or compile from sources. Also, both Iceweasel and gmusicbrowser don't depend on dbus. Iceweasel has libdbus-1-3, I reckon, it is not a problem. Hope this helps, Mitt References: [1]:https://git.devuan.org/dev1fanboy/Upgrad

[DNG] Release file for Ceres is expired

2016-01-27 Thread Mitt Green
Hi, Got the error now: $ sudo apt update [...] E: Release file for http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/dists/unstable/InRelease is expired (invalid since 4h 27min 55s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. Ceres/Unstable //Mitt ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop.

2016-01-26 Thread Mitt Green
all at all. Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop.

2016-01-26 Thread Mitt Green
‎I wrote: >they offer cheap low-end laptops (well, having 4GB of RAM is low-end these days). They have Linux pre-installed, forgot to mention. I've seen maybe a couple only high-end laptops with Linux, and they are made by Dell. So, looking through the market, chances are, you'll see galore, but

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop.

2016-01-26 Thread Mitt Green
. And, of course, as long as they don't bundle Windows right into the SSD/HDD (or do they?), assembling own machine is the best way to get it working. My £0.02, Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/ma

[DNG] Evolution of a Unix minimalist

2016-01-25 Thread Mitt Green
Removes GNOME3 Removes systemd Removes Xfce Removes 9wm Removes X Removes their package manager Removes make, because "I can cc everything by myself" Removes C++ programmes Removes C programmes "Why do I need Assembly when there is machine code" ___

Re: [DNG] Lightweight media/video player

2016-01-25 Thread Mitt Green
thanks. I can't live without libpulse0 anyway now, mostly because of games (0 A.D., UT, RedEclipse etc., they all need it). // Mitt ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Lightweight media/video player

2016-01-25 Thread Mitt Green
+3 is less favoured); - not a lot of dependencies (why do I need to install samba-libs to decode videos, I don't know); - it would be great if a player is already compiled in .deb and is in repos/PPA/official site. Thank you all, Have a good one, // Mitt

Re: [DNG] Debian is endorsed by Microsoft

2016-01-21 Thread Mitt Green
here Windows is represented by only one machine. I would still like to thank Microsoft, because if their Windows 8 was working for me without three BSODs in six months, I'd never be here. ‎ Sorry for the long rant, // Mitt ___ D

[DNG] Debian is endorsed by Microsoft

2016-01-20 Thread Mitt Green
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/debian-images-now-available-on-azure/ Debian will be offered as an endorsed operating system in Azure Marketplace. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Systemd best practices

2016-01-20 Thread Mitt Green
quot;use cases" for systemd? Heh, as long as you don't have a choice, there is no "use case" or best practice. If ye use Debian, ye are required to use systemd (from TC perspective). By the way, I generally dislike the way Debian-docs a

Re: [DNG] Beware

2016-01-19 Thread Mitt Green
Does that actually mean that we should migrate to newer kernels as soon as the hole gets fixed? I reckon, even though there are plenty of machines that run older than 3.8 (2.6.32 notably) this affects pretty much everyone, at least here. Well, applying patches is not something time-consuming, but

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-16 Thread Mitt Green
Steve Litt wrote: >I'm not for a moment suggesting Devuan should remove Debian's libdbus >dependency. We have bigger fish to fry. $ apt-cache rdepends libdbus-1-3 libdbus-1-3 Reverse Depends: (...) 436 packages at all on my Unstable Mitt___ Dng mailin

Re: [DNG] Does dunst require dbus?

2016-01-16 Thread Mitt Green
Steve Litt wrote: >Does dunst depend on dbus? Well, according to apt-cache depends, it needs dbus' shared library (libdbus-1-3). >Can dunst be run without dbus? >Can notify-send be run without dbus? Since it doesn't depend on dbus package, which contains dbus-daemon, it may be able to. Not sur

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
The man (the myth, the legend; Scott Sterling is in my heart forever, but return to our muttons) himself criticised OSS once: http://linuxfr.org/nodes/86687/comments/1249943___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mail

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
Adam Borowski wrote: >I see not a single piece of hardware from this millenium. >Thus, OSS is not just obsolete, it's historic. According to the list, it can't work on my machine, which is made in this century (2013 to be exact). Please take a look at this article (last edited in 2011): https://

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
I wrote: >by happy chance we do have OSS option, which is simpler and portable >and simply works. Also, if you go with OSS, you need neither xfce4-volumed, nor xfce4-mixer, because: - OSS has its own mixer; - volume keys can be configured to be used with it. Frankly, I don't understand, why Open

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
Emiliano Marini wrote: >Word from Eric Hameleers, one of the main Slackware maintainers (AKA alienbob): >>"...you have to have PA installed because applications are now linking >>against it. >>What you can still do is configure PA to be an input channel for ALSA and >>leave ALSA to control your

Re: [DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
Tomasz Torcz wrote: >Slackware switched to eudev in order to avoid systemd. Shame on me not reading the whole thing. Still, systemd is not mentioned (: Cheers, Mitt___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/l

[DNG] Slackware now uses PulseAudio...

2016-01-14 Thread Mitt Green
...because of BlueZ 5 and Xfce. Looks like those xfce4-volumed and xfce4-mixer are dropped *in favour* of PulseAudio (as they say because of gstreamer). Developers of BlueZ simply stopped supporting ALSA. In other news, current branch has got 4.4 kernel, which, by the way, came up only four days

Re: [DNG] Quick start guide to uprading to Devuan and configuring minimalism

2016-01-12 Thread Mitt Green
Svante Signell wrote: > What about: (saves a copy of the old file): > blah-blah-blah Why not simply check .xinitrc first and put "startxfce4" or whatever inside with a text editor? By the way, I have "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch." My two eurocents, Mitt__

Re: [DNG] FW: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-11 Thread Mitt Green
Ángel Ramírez Isea wrote: >IMHO, at some point we will have to start ignoring whatever they do. What does RH produce so it can't be replaced in favour of an alternative? Maybe GTK+ only, which is made by the GNOME Project, where RH employees work... But it's indirect. And we still use GTK+2 anywa

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