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2015-04-01 12:18 GMT+02:00 Linux O'Beardly <[email protected]>: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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