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

2018-01-13 Thread aitor_czr
On 13/01/18 22:59, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Jaromil (jaro...@dyne.org): plus funny to read Devuan turning almost into a DonJuan :^D I look forward to quoting Don Giovanni's servant Leporello about Devuan adoptions: In Italia seicento e quaranta; In Alemagna, duecento e trentuna; Cen

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

2018-01-13 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jaromil (jaro...@dyne.org): > plus funny to read Devuan turning almost into a DonJuan :^D I look forward to quoting Don Giovanni's servant Leporello about Devuan adoptions: In Italia seicento e quaranta; In Alemagna, duecento e trentuna; Cento in Francia, in Turchia novantuna; M

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

2018-01-13 Thread aitor_czr
Hi William, On 13/01/18 01:18, William C Vaughan wrote: Lurker here. [cut] Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with Dejuan The right term is DevJuan :) and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’

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

2018-01-13 Thread Jaromil
hi William, thanks for your message :) its encouraging to read you. plus funny to read Devuan turning almost into a DonJuan :^D On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, William C Vaughan wrote: >From the perspective of a retired programmer/analyst, now >dilletante, you Dejuan folks are on the precipice of

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

2018-01-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 04:26:17AM +0100, arne wrote: [cut] > > Devuan is not Linux, and RedHat is not Sun Microsystems, but we'll see > > how it goes. According to some professionals and experts in the field, > > Devuan should not even exist. Nevertheless, a lot of users are having > > a lot of

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

2018-01-12 Thread arne
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 00:43:15 + KatolaZ wrote: > Sun Microsystems had a huge lot of money back in the late 90s. They > desperately wanted total domination over the entry and mid-level > server segment. They also had a lot of exposure and a respected > legacy. They were perfectly placed in that

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

2018-01-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 12:18:00AM +, William C Vaughan wrote: [cut] > > From the perspective of a retired programmer/analyst, now dilletante, you > Dejuan folks are on the precipice of success. See the forest over the > trees, get your message out as an upstream solution to Linux in the > e

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

2018-01-12 Thread William C Vaughan
Devuan, Dejuan it. On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 6:17 PM William C Vaughan wrote: > Lurker here. Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with > Dejuan and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but > always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’s feelings on the

[DNG] Which is free, which is open source, et al.

2018-01-12 Thread William C Vaughan
Lurker here. Following this stuff for a couple of years, playing with Dejuan and its downstream variants with some success, some failures, but always interesting. I’m very empathetic to Steve Litt’s feelings on the systemd stuff, and am particularly inspired to reply to the latest missive on the po