> > Devuan is not "against something", but "towards something else".
+1000 On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 4:25 AM, KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear fellow Devuanists, > > I just wanted to share with the list a few sparse thoughts, resulting > from the events of the last few days. You should read a clear "IMHO" > after each period, since these are my personal, humble, minuscle > thoughts, which you are free to ignore altogether :) > > First, I haven't said that yet, but I am obviously very happy that > Devuan Jessie Beta is finally out, and extremely grateful to the > people in the development team that made it possible, and to the > people in this list who have supported them, in a way or another. We > don't forget that the overwhelming majority of the Linux world has > always been quite skeptical about Devuan, labelling it as a "futile > effort" by a "band of neo-luddites", and that the large majority of > commentators, experts, gurus, and fanboys gave Devuan "just a few > months" before the whole wagon would disappear to /dev/null. Devuan > Jessie Beta is another proof that the majority is quite often wrong: > definitely more than a few months have passed, and Devuan is here, and > is here to stay. > > We are all proud of this milestone, but we should be very careful not > allowing pride to make us blind. > > The release of Beta was managed very carefully and professionally, and > was overall a success, but we should learn from the few things that > were not as perfect as they could be. > > For instance, several small glitches could have been avoided easily: a > few typos in the official announcement, a few typos in the official > webpage (see for instance the "mirrors" vs "mirror" in the package > source URL), a few inconsistencies in the documentation put online, > and so on. These are all things that undermine our public image, and > unfortunately many people want to ruin Devuan's image, for a reason or > another. Maybe for the future we might have a larger number of people > checking this stuff before an official press release comes out. I > volunteer from now to help in "typo-hunting", and I will start with > our website (which is *beautiful*, BTW). > > Talking of Devuan's image, I really appreciated that the release of > beta was not accompained by trumpets and drums, which helped giving an > aura of "well, this is what should have naturally happend, right?" to > the whole process. I have to admit that I was also a bit disappointed > at first in noting that most of the community out there had barely > noticed it. In the end, I concluded that this should not be a problem > for us. Let's face it: Devuan *is* a niche, a minority, an effort that > goes in a different direction from "mainstream", and there is nothing > wrong about it. The most important thing is that *we*, the > *Devuanists*, had something to celebrate yesterday, a great operating > system to use from today, and a solid project on which to build > greater things for tomorrow. All the great things started from niches, > minorities, contrarians, and *evolution* alone, not PR, has eventually > determined which of the many niches would survive. > > Finally, about evolution, I have seen several hundreds posts on reddit > and slashdot by people who "fight" to show that systemd is evil while > Devuan is "the right thing". I would humbly recommend people to avoid > wasting their energy in such useless chit-chatting. No informed > opinion by a tech-savvy will convince me that systemd is good, and the > same is true in the other direction. Devuan is not "against > something", but "towards something else". The things that will allow > Devuan to remain alive will be a reliable distribution, a large user > base, a thriving community. *Evolution* has already sweeped out > thousands of distributions, and will sweep out thousands more in the > future. Only those which are fit for the purpose they target will > survive, whatever is the opinion of the majority, or of their > supporters and fanboys. So it's better to put our efforts towards > building a stronger, better, fitter Devuan, since our opinions about > Devuan will not save it from oblivion. > > Now off to work to release Jessie stable ASAP. > > 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 > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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