On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:23:09AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: [cut]
> Hi Didier, > > I'll explain my motivations, and perhaps others are in my boat... > Since everybody seems to be on an "outing" mood, here are the reasons why I am here :) I fell in love with unix by reading an encyclopedia of computer science, in the early 90s, around the age of 12 or 13. I learned the usage of the shell and of a few dozens basic commands (including a bit of vi) several years before I had the opportunity to actually sit in front of a unix machine and use them. I still remember the day I was presented with a "login: " prompt for the first time :) Simply put, for me the unix phylosophy was just straightforwardly winning and "right", by itself. "Keep It Simple" and "Do One Thing and Do It Well" are concepts I didn't make any effort to understand and digest, to the point that after so many years I consider them a natural part of the "programmer" side of myself. At first I chose GNU/Linux because it was readily available on Intel machines at the time (this is what we had available at the university), and then I gradually learned that Free Software was much more and much better than just "well-designed software that works well". Hence, after a few years wandering here and there and trying almost anything, from Slackware to RH to MDK to TL, Debian seemed just the natural choice of a GNU/Linux distro. Again, it incarnated the good old "KISS" and "DOTADIW" principles, and the "Debian releases when it's time" represented a severe adherence to the standards of stability and security that distinguished (at least part of) the Unix legacy. I started with Potato testing, and never turned back. I have worked as a programmer, sysadmin, engineer, architect, carpenter and plumber, but little has changed since then in my users/admin/programmer needs: WMaker/xmonad, mutt, Emacs AND vim, gcc, autotools, python, LaTeX and a little bit more. But all this stuff has to stay on top of a system that I must have the possibility to study, understand, modify, adapt, mend and destroy, if necessary. I feel that one step at a time I have already lost control on several parts of the system in the last 10 years or so, a reasonable price to be payed for an enlarged and inclusive community. But I clearly perceive the systemd-nonsense (together with some other nonsense the Linux community has brought on board in the last few years) both as an unbearable threat to my freedom (of tinkering, playing and modding my OS as I wished) and as a dangerous move away from the principles that inspired the *nix phylosophy and that brought me to love it. If the systemd-nonsense is the direction GNU/Linux is going to follow, then most of the fun will be over pretty soon, believe it or not. That's why I am here, why I really hope that Devuan will live and flourish, and why I am so grateful to the guys that are working behind the scenes to make Devuan happen :) HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng