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