Re: [DNG] Recreational Software, was Re: history

On 09.08.20 02:31, terryc wrote: > On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:33:00 -0500 > John Morris wrote: > > Snipping the Pol, Para and not mentioning Cap. > >> Or like people who still run Windows after >> decades of failure and breathtaking security flaws, but they just know >> the next release is going to

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade - 32% slowdown !

On 12.06.20 13:02, d...@d404.nl wrote: > On 12-06-2020 12:49, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped >> with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM. >> >> I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same >> applic

Re: [DNG] lilo

On 29.05.2016 22:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 08:37:08PM +0100, dev1fanboy wrote: >> >> Also worth pointing out that lilo is without an upstream maintainer >> as of recently. > > I'm happily using lilo to boot my server. > > From a floppy, yet. And then you realized its 201

Re: [DNG] Popularity-contest for Devuan

I never participated at the popularity contest but i think a bit engagement at that would get us a better status in the debian crew. So i just installed "popularity-contest" and i hoped thats enough? On 30.03.2016 11:51, Rob wrote: > >> Original Message >> Subject: Re: [DNG] Po

[DNG] Netman Communication

Hi, would it be possible to use github comments or a seperate mailing list for Netman? Some days it feels like this is the Netman Mailing list and Devuan is a little sub project of Netman. I would be very happy if we find a solution for this issue. -- Kind regards Patrick Erdmann XMPP/Mail

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

On 09.08.2015 12:02, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Mark S Bilk writes: >> It seems to me that it's good to have shim programs that satisfy >> dependencies of apps on systemd, each shim performing some systemd >> function. Here's why: >> >> Suppose there are 10,000 application programs (apps) for Lin

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

On 17.07.2015 11:25, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:50 AM James Powell > wrote: > > There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard > Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a > working op

Re: [DNG] vi for beginners

Is this still the mailinglist which is about the OPERATING SYSTEM devuan? On 16.07.2015 16:39, Rob Owens wrote: > I noted some people saying they were confused by vi. Here are basic > instructions to get you far enough that you can install your editor of > choice. I am deliberately leaving out t

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

In my experience pulse should be optional. It works. Not good but it does what its made for (after years of development). But avahi is unstable... Does not work for me. I often had this problem: Network was not reachable, because of avahi. On 01.04.2015 21:33, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Wed, Apr

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 6, Issue 75

I support Nuno. +1 On 22.03.2015 13:53, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:24 AM, T.J. Duchene wrote: >> What I said was at some point Devuan will probably have to support systemd's >> API, in order to support upstream projects that actually require systemd. > > Why? > > Biggest

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

On 20.02.2015 12:54, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: > > > BTW I think nobody here cares about having Devuan support Gnome. > The do-it-all DEs, > those providing their own integrated replacement for every > application, are, by design, > opposed to the Nix principles. It is not a

Re: [Dng] Towards systemd-free packages

+1 for this pragmatic approach. On 14.02.2015 11:30, Jaromil wrote: > > hi Jack, Isaac, > > On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Jack L. Frost wrote: >> That's because by default X tries to hotplug input devices with evdev. >> And evdev requires libudev. There is a evdev fork that works with >> libsysdev tho:

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, "Has modern Linux lost its way?"

On 12.02.2015 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:21:00 + > KatolaZ wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:33:51AM +0200, Martijn Dekkers wrote: >> >> [cut] >> >>> >>> Whilst I am still utterly amazed with how awesome Linux servers >>> are, I don't think we will ever get there w