And FTR, I forgot it was April Fool's Day and my heart literally sank during my initial reading of this email. Good one!
Linux O'Beardly @LinuxOBeardly http://o.beard.ly On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Linux O'Beardly <[email protected]> wrote: > Happy April Fools, you limey bastards. > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Veteran Unix Admins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Dear Init Freedom lovers, >> >> Once again the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you! >> >> As most of you know, we have followed up with our intentions in >> developing Devuan GNU/Linux right after Ian Jackson's GR vote resolution >> in Debian. We have made great progress and achieved several milestones >> among them a complete SDK to facilitate package maintainance, a new >> package repository software "Amprolla" and a continuous integration >> workflow based on gitlab and Jenkins. We are also proud to have >> facilitate the work of Jude Nelson on a new /dev daemon implementation >> called VDev and more in general to have given voice to all those who had >> doubts about systemd being a viable course of evolution for GNU/Linux >> operating systems. >> >> >> By doing so we have obviously looked deep inside Debian and systemd >> itself and we have never refrained from critically analysing what >> systemd was doing as well what we were doing and the reasons for it. >> >> We firmly believe every responsible and critical engineer out there >> should at least think twice about developing something new systems and >> even Donald Knuth teaches us in the Art of Programming that is always >> appropriate to re-think and re-design algorithms and challenge ourselves >> over our own initial beliefs. >> >> >> That's why today, after 7 months of work in the direction of forking >> Debian we have decided that not, we will not do that. Today we give up >> and we accept to be assimilated. After all, we think that systemd is >> not so bad and we can live with it. >> >> We understand some of you may not be convinced, but please consider our >> decision here is really well thought. It is also too hard for us to >> catch up with the rampant development going on in systemd and we believe >> that we can live just fine with systemd and some shims. We tried hard, >> now we hope you will believe us and even if you don't, at least please >> give systemd a try. >> >> With the existing infrastructure in place, we will start maintaining a >> mirror of systemd and use our CI infrastructure to contribute >> deterministic reproducible builds of Debian packages. >> >> We ask the free and open source software community at large to please >> accept our apologies for making so much noise on this issue, today we >> feel like we have just been trolled by all those complainers we >> initially gave voice and leverage, while it is evident they have nothing >> to contribute really. It took us some time to understand that systemd is >> the future and we hope this experience contributes to a critical >> understanding of systemd. >> >> To all those who have donated substantial amounts of money so far: we >> commit to return you all the donations in EUR or Dogecoin. The donations >> that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give >> back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as >> well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor >> children in Africa. >> >> so long and thanks for all the fish, >> >> The Veteran Unix Admins >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dng mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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