Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 10, Issue 12

2015-07-04 Thread John Jensen
Hi All, I've been following this list for a long time. I'm a supporter of open source and the philosophy around it. I studied programming years ago but as the work where I live, at the time, was in other areas I moved on to other things. If one wnated to learn C to contribute to the community what

[DNG] installer options and systemd survey from a non-power users perspective

2015-07-16 Thread John Jensen
Hi All, As a very unspohisticated Linux user I try not to post to this list to often, but here's what I think. You are building a Linux base distribution that is close to Debian Jessie, so stay as close to their install packages as possible, of course, excluding all things systemd. I find vi, vi

[DNG] Fwd: LinuxQuestions.org - Community Bulletin

2015-07-16 Thread John Jensen
This looks interesting. Are any of you interested in being interviewed? -- Forwarded message -- From: fo...@linuxquestions.org Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:15 PM Subject: LinuxQuestions.org - Community Bulletin To: bsduse...@gmail.com jdj, We recently interviewed Roberto

[DNG] dng@lists.dyne.org

2015-07-16 Thread John Jensen
I agree with T.J. that Devuan should stay as close to Debian as possible and it should include vi. If I have to get my little vi book out to function in vi I will :) On an unrelated, I appologize for the length of the email I forwarded about a potential interview. I should have copied and pasted t

Re: [DNG] A better default windows manager

2015-07-28 Thread John Jensen
I know it's decided that XFCE will be the default, which is fine, and as a simply end user I'll be happy with a functional system. I do have a question though. I find JWM to be quite flexible, although I've still much to try and learn about configuring it. It seems to do about everything a person w

Re: [DNG] Dng Digest, Vol 17, Issue 6

2016-02-02 Thread John Jensen
Subject: Re: [DNG] Systemd at work: rm -rf EFI - made The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/02/delete_efivars_linux/ On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 5:48 AM, wrote: > Send Dng mailing list submissions to > dng@lists.dyne.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, vis