Re: [Dng] Devuan Logo survey

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> Martijn seems to have a solution for polls, let's do that instead. > > FWIW. > > yes that is a kind offer. I do believe surveys help to choose things the > LEAN way, keeping in touch with the general sense, so yes Martijn we'll > use it. > > My pleasure, I will run something up tomorrow (packed d

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 27/02/2015 00:07, Joel Roth a écrit : On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 06:02:16PM -0500, Gravis wrote: > >http://www.saynotogmos.org/ss/penguins/trio.png > >ha! it just needs words like "Linux: Strut your stuff" [?] I thought of photoshopping in a jail out of which they are walking. Both

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Matthew Melton
Matthew Melton m...@mjmworks.co.uk KatolaZ wrote > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 07:13:38PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > Well, I agree about the necessity of having a logo, but there is no > > point into having a great brand without anything concrete behind it, > > IMHO

Re: [Dng] Combatting revisionist history

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:25:16 + KatolaZ пишет: > I personally think that the essence of that nice post is in the very > last quote: > > "Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, > poorly." I've another story, same way: "Whenever people did invent good (here comes its crit

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:19:04 + KatolaZ пишет: > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Ста Деюс > > wrote: > > > But, at the first, what is planned to perform to protect «Devuan» > > > from the guys, that got hold of the fantastic project «Debian»? > > > In other words, if the guys come to «Dev

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:30:39PM -0500, william moss wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On 02/23/2015 04:24 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I have a three-or-four year-old laptop on which I am repla

Re: [Dng] btrfs repair works fine, Lennart has no idea what he is talking about - was OT - It may be only one file, but it does point to the bigger problem!

2015-02-27 Thread Peter Maloney
On 02/22/2015 07:28 PM, Jim Murphy wrote: > [...] > Part of the discussion: > >>> btrfs checksumming theoretically allows you to transparently recover >>> after media corruption if filesystem has redundancy (more than one >>> copy of data). Journald checksum will probably detect corruption, but >>>

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Jude Nelson
Hmmm, you might have to use isohybrid (in the syslinux package) to make the ISO bootable when dd'ed to a USB key. See http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 2

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > > for example > > > dd if=/home/daffyduck/download/devian.iso of=/dev/sde > > Did that. > > Wouldn't boot. > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Dr. Nikolaus Klepp
Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2015 schrieb Martijn Dekkers: > > > > for example > > > > dd if=/home/daffyduck/download/devian.iso of=/dev/sde > > > > Did that. > > > > Wouldn't boot. > > > > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ > some computers need a partition table on the usb-stick to boot. -- Pl

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:21:03AM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > Hmmm, you might have to use isohybrid (in the syslinux package) to make the > ISO bootable when dd'ed to a USB key. See > http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb. Did that. dd'd it again. Now it boots, though, as expected, it still

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:56:56PM +, Matthew Melton wrote: [cut] > > > > Just to support my point, Debian has a great logo, but this is what is > > currently happening to the users of Jessie, thanks to the > > systemd-nonsense: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/02/msg00013.

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Gravis
> How much should systemd damage the image of GNU/Linux before everybody realise how much of a nonsense it is? the image of linux is /not/ what will cause change. - people will switch when the annoyance of unexpected systemd behavior outweighs the annoyance of getting rid of systemd - developers

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:03:22PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:21:03AM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > > Hmmm, you might have to use isohybrid (in the syslinux package) to make the > > ISO bootable when dd'ed to a USB key. See > > http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/iso2usb. >

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:05:49 + KatolaZ пишет: > If it is true that "freedom of choice" sounds like a cool flagship, on > the other hand we effectively have no freedom at all about the choice > of the large majority of the core components of a GNU/Linux system, > starting with the libc and cont

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:39:06 +0100 Didier Kryn пишет: > I think this question goes together with the badge or logo > question. It must go beyond "sans-systemd"; > it is more about principles. Let's list some: > > - freedom of choice, > - interchangealility of solutions to a given need,

Re: [Dng] three important UI features

2015-02-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/22/2015 05:45 PM, Mark Maxwell wrote: On 22/02/15 20:11, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hello, A few questions about the GUI for Devuan... 1) In the default desktop environment for Devuan, will there be an icon or other discoverable item the user can click to see a list of available wifi networ

Re: [Dng] Easy forkability

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:56:28 -0500 Hendrik Boom пишет: > > Well the answer is simple: if such an unlikely "invasion" would > > happen, we will always have the opportunity to fork Devuan, for the > > good of its users :) > > This suggests that one of the goals of Devuan should be easy > forkabil

Re: [Dng] btrfs repair works fine, Lennart has no idea what he is talking about - was OT - It may be only one file, but it does point to the bigger problem!

2015-02-27 Thread T.J. Duchene
Quite frankly, I would not overly concern myself with Lennart's Poettering's opinion. He has been quoted: "Open Source community is full of assholes, and I probably more than most others am one of their most favourite targets." That's probably true in many ways. I've seen plenty of them, how

Re: [Dng] Easy forkability

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:32:08 +0100 Jaromil пишет: > > This suggests that one of the goals of Devuan should be easy > > forkability. > > > > But it's not clear to me what this involves technically. > > > > Any suggestions? > > perhaps the SDK is a good start on this ;^) Yea! That's a very goo

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:28:41 + Noel Torres пишет: > > https://git.devuan.org/devuan-editors/devuan-art/blob/devuan-alpha/graphic > > s/init-freedom/if.png > > I'd prefer any logo that does not use english initials or play on > words. Awesome! As it is the planet-wide project, why make it

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:39:10 + Noel Torres пишет: > I do not find it swear nor violent. I find way more violent to > request us (not me, DWN is made by a growig group of people) to stop > using words that are not swear just because they incomodate a single > person, and that single person spea

Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11

2015-02-27 Thread Ста Деюс
В Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:15:24 +0100 Anthony Scemama пишет: > I found this image on the web: > > http://tux.crystalxp.net/png/kros753-kiss-the-demon-2286.png > > ​ > It's a good mix between KISS and Linux! > If you like it, I can ask the guys from CrystalXP.net if it can be > used for Devuan. I g

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 07:22:26PM +0300, Jack L. Frost wrote: > > Could you please cease «kickass» here -- for people read your news > > also, but such rudness leaves them nothing but to shrink from your > > writing. Thanks again for the news though. > > “kickass” is not even a swear word. I thi

[Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Fri, 2015-02-27 at 18:13 +, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:56:56PM +, Matthew Melton wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > Just to support my point, Debian has a great logo, but this is what is > > > currently happening to the users of Jessie, thanks to the > > > systemd-nonsens

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 2/27/15, Hendrik Boom wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, February 27, 2015, 2:12 PM On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 07:22:26PM +0300, Jack L. Frost wrote: > > Could you please cease «kickass» here -- for people read your news > > also, but su

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread hellekin
On 02/27/15 16:21, Ста Деюс wrote: > > Awesome! As it is the planet-wide project, why make it necessary to > translate even logo into languages? - Let it be just graphical stuff. > *** Why is everybody looking for the One Ring to Rule Them All? Can't we have unity through diversity? Are we all

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread hellekin
On 02/27/15 16:16, Ста Деюс wrote: > > It is swear to me, and can/ be for others. > *** *I* used "kickass" in the common slang meaning of "very good or impressive", or "very effective". As a non-native English speaker as well, it didn't occur to me that it was impolite to do so, and apparently th

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Gravis
> It is swear to me, and can/ be for others. > > You' re free to whatever you want within your company, body, spirit -- > but, please stop doing it publicaly - for the people it is not > acceptable to hear such a speech/language that you or your company > lives w/. this coming from the person that

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Gravis wrote: > - people will switch when the annoyance of unexpected systemd behavior > outweighs the annoyance of getting rid of systemd > - developers will stop using it when something nicer with wider support > comes along or they personally are fed up with sys

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Gravis
frankly, i find the "badges" to be a petty jab at other distros that is more of a distraction than anything else. --Gravis On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:30 PM, hellekin wrote: > On 02/27/15 16:21, Ста Деюс wrote: > > > > Awesome! As it is the planet-wide project, why make it necessary to > > transl

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:30 PM, hellekin wrote: >> Awesome! As it is the planet-wide project, why make it necessary to >> translate even logo into languages? - Let it be just graphical stuff. +1 > *** Why is everybody looking for the One Ring to Rule Them All? Can't > we have unity through div

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Neo Futur
> *** Why is everybody looking for the One Ring to Rule Them All? Can't > we have unity through diversity? Are we all subject of Mordor's torpor > and subjugation? which makes me think some kind of broken ring, or melted ring, could be an idea for the devuan or rootslinux logo . . . breaking fre

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 2/27/15, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, February 27, 2015, 3:27 PM > > And why penguins? I think in terms of non-conformity, the platypus > makes much more sense. > > W

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Go Linux wrote: >> And why penguins? I think in terms of non-conformity, the platypus >> makes much more sense. > Why? 'Cos us humans and out need for recognizable patterns can't quite classify it :) ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 2/27/15, Nuno Magalhães wrote: Subject: Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, February 27, 2015, 4:11 PM On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Go Linux wrote: >> And why penguins? I think in terms of non-conformity, the platypus >> makes much more sense. > Wh

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Gravis
trying to look different for the sake of looking different is stupid. --Gravis On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Go Linux wrote: > >> And why penguins? I think in terms of non-conformity, the platypus > >> makes much more sense. > > Why?

Re: [Dng] simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 06:13:24PM +, KatolaZ wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 01:56:56PM +, Matthew Melton wrote: > > [cut] > > > > > > > Just to support my point, Debian has a great logo, but this is what is > > > currently happening to the users of Jessie, thanks to the > > > systemd-

Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:18:15 -0600 "T.J. Duchene" wrote: > With respect to all, I think that a measure of objectivity is called > for here. I think that because personality clashes that Debian's > entire systemd discussion has lost any sense of reality long ago. You know, T.J., I might just ag

Re: [Dng] [D OFFLIST ng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:05:49 -0300 hellekin wrote: > On 02/27/15 16:16, Ста Деюс wrote: > > > > It is swear to me, and can/ be for others. > > > *** *I* used "kickass" in the common slang meaning of "very good or > impressive", or "very effective". As a non-native English speaker as > well, it

[Dng] I'm sorry

2015-02-27 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, An email I thought was going to just five people went to the list. It was an accident, and I'm sorry. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance ___ Dng mailing list Dng@l

Re: [Dng] [OT] Debian problems with Jesse - was simple backgrounds

2015-02-27 Thread Steven W. Scott
Lol! I recently happened to be researching the different soundsystem architectures, after incinerating pulseaudio on my laptop/Wheezy and then having different problems, and found --> https://wiki.debian.org/Sound What struck me of particular interest were the three diagrams of how alsa/jack/pulse

Re: [Dng] plan to install valentine pre-alpha on real hardware.

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > > > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ > > > > some computers need a partition table on the usb-stick to boot. > > unetbootin should take care of that ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] Easy forkability

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > So, i see for protection two ways: technical, like minimalism for easy > forking, and community driven development of the project. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_committee ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.or

[Dng] What if systemd infects the kernel?

2015-02-27 Thread Go Linux
I have been aware of the pending assimilation of systemd into the kernel since Linus dramatically rejected Kay Sievers' code last spring. Recently there has been renewed chatter about the impending doom. But I'm not quite clear how that would affect devuan. Hoping you can help me get a grip on

Re: [Dng] Init Freedom badges

2015-02-27 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 04:32:36PM -0500, Neo Futur wrote: > > *** Why is everybody looking for the One Ring to Rule Them All? Can't > > we have unity through diversity? Are we all subject of Mordor's torpor > > and subjugation? > > which makes me think some kind of broken ring, or melted ring,

Re: [Dng] [D OFFLIST ng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> OFFLIST > Glad it was not OFFLIST - it shows true colors. > I'd suggest we not discuss the meaning or connotation of "kickass" > anymore. The guy who originally had the hissy-fit, Ста Деюс, had been on > the list one whole day (with three basically non-contributory posts) > when he decided to

Re: [Dng] Devuan Weekly News XI

2015-02-27 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > this coming from the person that has the initials for "shut the hell up" > as their signature. > "sthu" is actually how you would spell "Ста" in Latin - he is simply singing off with his first name, like a normal person. "С" = "S" in English "т" = "th" phonetically in English "а" = "u" phonet