[Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Richard Pieri
https://devuan.org/ Devuan will derive its own installer and package repositories from Debian, modifying them where necessary, with the first goal of removing systemd, still inheriting the Debian development workflow while continuing it on a different path: free from bloat as a minimalist

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 11/29/2014 12:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: https://devuan.org/ Devuan will derive its own installer and package repositories from Debian, modifying them where necessary, with the first goal of removing systemd, still inheriting the Debian development workflow while continuing it on a

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
I don't think that what you ask for is possible. The systemd debate is outside the realm of anything a suit is likely to understand, even if you use an entire page. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Bill Horne b...@horne.net wrote: On 11/29/2014 12:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Timothy Lyons
I think that's the argument. Simple and proven vs. Complicated and new. Tim Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -Original Message- From: Shirley Márquez Dúlcey [m...@buttery.org] Received: Saturday, 29 Nov 2014, 12:50 To: Bill Horne [b...@horne.net] CC: BLU

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Richard Pieri
On 11/29/2014 12:49 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: I don't think that what you ask for is possible. The systemd debate is outside the realm of anything a suit is likely to understand, even if you use an entire page. Nah... Bill isn't looking for an explanation. He's looking for a

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Betsy Schwartz
The suit explanation has to focus on business impact, not technical details. use phrases like: risk of disruption proven compatibility increased stability total uptime maintenance cost (or their inverses) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Matthew Gillen
On 11/29/2014 12:45 PM, Bill Horne wrote: Someone, please give me a one-sentence answer I can recite to any suit who asks me what the difference is. I can't use words like systemd: their eyes will glaze over. TIA. Tell them you can tweak old sys-v scripts if they break and/or you need them

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 11/29/2014 1:27 PM, Betsy Schwartz wrote: The suit explanation has to focus on business impact, not technical details. use phrases like: risk of disruption proven compatibility increased stability total uptime maintenance cost (or their inverses) Betsy, Thanks, that's a good point. Of

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 11/29/2014 12:49 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: I don't think that what you ask for is possible. The systemd debate is outside the realm of anything a suit is likely to understand, even if you use an entire page. That's the problem: I can't try to explain why I might recommend one

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Horne Someone, please give me a one-sentence answer I can recite to any suit who asks me what the difference is. Nobody will ask unless they already have an opinion about

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Edward Ned Harvey (blu) The arguments about preventing downtime are bunk, unless somebody shows that systemd causes downtime. Which it doesn't. There's a reason it's difficult to come up with a concrete argument against systemd. ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Richard Pieri
On 11/29/2014 7:50 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: The arguments about preventing downtime are bunk, unless somebody shows that systemd causes downtime. Which it doesn't. Last major update to my home box, systemd broke Samba. No changes were made to the Samba configuration; systemd simply

Re: [Discuss] Debian officially forked over systemd

2014-11-29 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 00:52 +, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: The arguments about preventing downtime are bunk, unless somebody shows that systemd causes downtime. Which it doesn't. There's a reason it's difficult to come up with a concrete argument against systemd. YALS - Yet