I'm sorry, this is the source of the original thread: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users And concrete letters: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2019-07/index.html
El 1/8/19 a les 18:26, Steve Litt ha escrit: > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:29:39 +0200 > Narcis Garcia <informat...@actiu.net> wrote: > >> -------- Missatge reenviat -------- >> Assumpte: Re: [gNewSense-users] Stepping down >> Data: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:45:32 +0200 >> De: Sam Geeraerts <sam...@elmundolibre.be> >> A: gnewsense-us...@nongnu.org >> >> On 29/07/19 17:10, Will Hill wrote: >>> It would probably be easier to take non free software out of Devuan >>> than it is to take Systemd out of Debian, so I'll be happy if >>> gNewSense continues the easy way. >> >> Indeed, at least technically. If there's anyone here who knows some >> Devuan people it would be interesting to hear from him/her. > > There's not enough context here to understand, and the attributions > appear screwed up. I have no Devuan posts from Sam Geeraerts nor Will > Hill, so I'm assuming this came in from somewhere else > (gnewsense-us...@nongnue.org maybe?). > > Anyway, if this is a suggestion to yank all nonfree out of Devuan and > call it something else, that's fine with me. As a matter of fact, > Devuan could slowly, selectively and judiciously make the same > substitutions as the child distro. > > But if the suggestion is to yank out nonfree and call it Devuan, for > practical purposes that would make Devuan unbootable for a lot of > people. Malfunctions during boot can have causes depending on tens or > hundreds of factors, many hidden away. It's a bridge too far to > expect someone booting up a distro for the first time to 1) > Know all his hardware, 2) Know exactly what drivers and firmware to > use, 3) Know where to find those drivers and firmware, 4) Know all the > commands to correctly load those drivers and firmware from a thumb > drive, and 5) Have enough spare time to go through all this. > > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > July 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques > of the Successful Technologist > http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng