[DNG] Devuan Vagrant install OSX

2016-02-22 Thread Wim
above returns. Any insights? Oh, and thanks for all the great work! Wim ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

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

2016-02-13 Thread Wim
2016-02-13 7:39 GMT+01:00 Neo Futur : > > I also don't understand that some media state he has been hired by > Docker, > > as according to his Linked In profiles, he is the founder and CTO: > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/solomonhykes > > More questions than answers, I'm afraid. > > the guy that h

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

2016-02-12 Thread Wim
Quote from Solomon Hykes' blog: "To build Docker we have re-used large quantities of plumbing: Linux, Go, lxc, aufs, lvm, iptables, virtualbox, vxlan, mesos, etcd, consul, systemd… the list goes on. " https://blog.docker.com/author/solomon/ I also don't understand that some media state he has be

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Wim
2016-02-04 18:53 GMT+01:00 Rainer Weikusat : > Wim writes: > > [...] > > > I'd like to see Devuan do better. Better than Debian, fi. Windows doesn't > > seem to have this problem, as far as I could figure out. A format c:/ > > doesn't erase UEFI.

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-04 Thread Wim
#x27;d like to see Devuan do better. Better than Debian, fi. Windows doesn't seem to have this problem, as far as I could figure out. A format c:/ doesn't erase UEFI... While this is mostly a fault by the manufacturer of the hardware, there seem to be a lot of those machines around. It&#x

Re: [DNG] Bad UEFI: was Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-02 Thread Wim
The proposed fix is to mark it in fstab as read only... I was under the impression fstab was one of the things systemd wanted to replace/eradicate? 2016-02-02 16:15 GMT+01:00 Fernando M. Maresca : > On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Back in the BIOS/MBR days, we had

[DNG] Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI

2016-02-01 Thread Wim
c.php?id=207549 efibootmgr needs to write to EFI vars, it seems. Here's Poettering's answer: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 Well, you've probably guessed the answer - Won't fix. Cheers, Wim ___ Dng ma

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop

2016-01-27 Thread Wim
2016-01-27 16:57 GMT+01:00 Simon Hobson : > Wim wrote: > > [snip] > > * Yes, the one with the faulty SATA that doesn't like 3gbps drives - you > try finding a drive these days that has a jumper for 1.5gbps operation :-( > > > > You don't need to jumper

Re: [DNG] Purchasing a new computer/laptop

2016-01-27 Thread Wim
d after a week. When I emailed the seller, he sent another one promptly. No need even to return the defective one and since sending to China from here will cost an arm an a leg, that's good. Another, unrelated note: Dell service was hacked. So, if you buy a new Dell, don't give them

Re: [DNG] Debian is endorsed by Microsoft

2016-01-21 Thread Wim
heard"... Slip of the tongue? What do you think? Cheers, Wim 2016-01-22 0:34 GMT+01:00 Arnt Karlsen : > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:46:55 +0100, Didier wrote in message > <56a0ef5f.3050...@in2p3.fr>: > > > Le 21/01/2016 13:08, Simon Hobson a écrit : > > > Wh

Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities

2016-01-02 Thread Wim
__ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > Hi all, I like simple things. Stepanie's idea seems great to my noob mind. As for live CD's, couldn't they implement a simple switch not to load modules at the end of kernel load and load initram/fs, for those circumstances? Cheers, Wim ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Ian Murdock's Twitter hijacked?

2015-12-29 Thread Wim
Yes, it's gone. Probably just a hijacked account. Sorry for the gossip ;-) Cheers, Wim 2015-12-30 2:05 GMT+01:00 dev1fanboy : > page shows as not existing my end > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 8:27 PM, Teodoro Santoni < > asbras...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hiya,

[DNG] Ian Murdock's Twitter hijacked?

2015-12-29 Thread Wim
jacked his Twitter account. My gut feeling tells me something else. You guess is as good as mine. Maybe someone knows him more intimately and can contact him. The DNS for his blog goes to Google. Also weird. Wim ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

[DNG] An abrupt end to Debian Live CD version?

2015-11-11 Thread Wim
Hi, This popped up: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00024.html Another dev throws in the towel under pressure. The list of downstream distro's is long... Cheers, Wim ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [Dng] Another reason of why I am considering Devuan

2015-04-03 Thread Wim
tl-in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root#NameCoin_P2P_DNS Let's also not forget that names.space is still suing ICANN: https://rally.org/namespace. Cheers, Wim 2015-04-03 22:55 GMT+02:00 marc : > > If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses a

Re: [Dng] Raspberry Pi 2

2015-02-10 Thread Wim
: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?24275-Ran-updates-and-now-no-GUI-at-all https://forums.kali.org/showthread.php?23603-About-Kali-Linux-and-systemd It appears the list isn't up-to-date and they should take kali off. Cheers, Wim 2015-02-10 20:29 GMT+01:00 Mark Purcell : > Th

Re: [Dng] Raspberry Pi 2

2015-02-10 Thread Wim
clear after the launch of the Pi 2 to buy one. Setting up a Devuan testbed on the Pi would be a very worthwhile cause. Cheers, Wim 2015-02-10 9:18 GMT+01:00 Robert Storey : > I just saw this announcement: > > Raspberry Pi 2 Now on Sale for US$35 > http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspbe