-----Original Message----- From: Steve Litt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Dng] Devuan foundational philosophy: was greets
Hi KatolaZ, Naturally, my crystal ball is no better than anybody else's, but my prediction is that as time goes on, Devuan's intention will become a more generalized superset of init freedom. I'm predicting that in the long run, it will become DIY freedom, with emphasis on small, standard parts with known, thin interfaces. Of course, systemd was the most glaring and urgent threat to DIY freedom, so we need to purge that silliness immediately, but I think we'll eventually go farther. As a matter of fact, my understanding is our default DE will be Xfce, not Gnome: A fact that will doubtlessly cause hand-wringing amongst those believing in the tightly-glued, unified system. SteveT Hey Steve! In the same vein as your message, I would like to offer a more specific suggestion. One of the biggest problems with Linux in general is that it is like hitting target. That is why LTS versions, and Linus' stance on kernel compatibility are so important. They provide a more stable ABI/API for development and servers. If Devuan could commit itself to enforcing a specific version of APIs with each release, I could see Devuan being hailed for stability and standardization. Granted, for the most part, that is what LTS versions already are doing anyway, but frankly Linux documentation sucks. If it was well documented and advertised as a feature, that Devuan promised to support said API's for this release, I think that would go a good distance to building confidence in Devuan, especially for servers and developers. t.j. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
