Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Aldemir Akpinar
BTW I think nobody here cares about having Devuan support Gnome. The do-it-all DEs, those providing their own integrated replacement for every application, are, by design, opposed to the Nix principles. It is not a surprise that systemd and Gnome are working together. I would say +1

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Martijn Dekkers
I would say +1 for everything that is written with this e-mail and above. However, there's one thing here, there are more people running servers than people running linux on their desktops, so IMHO devuan should first focus on the servers. I strongly believe that if we manage to pull

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 20.02.2015 12:54, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: BTW I think nobody here cares about having Devuan support Gnome. The do-it-all DEs, those providing their own integrated replacement for every application, are, by design, opposed to the Nix principles. It is not a

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Martijn Dekkers
Concerning dbus, there is a need for publisher/subscriber communication on the desktop. But I wonder why people have developped dbus instead of using a ready-made, well-tested, lightweight, language-agnostic middleware? Yes it exsts; there's at least one, ZeroMQ. Something something context

[Dng] LoginKit on the pre-alpha

2015-02-20 Thread Dima Krasner
Hello folks, Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play nicely with LoginKit instead of logind. http://i.imgur.com/1PTI6L5.png LoginKit (https://git.devuan.org/pkgs-utopia-substitution/loginkit) is an attempt to develop a shim that provides the parts of logind and libsystemd

Re: [Dng] XFCE et al

2015-02-20 Thread Dima Krasner
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:06:44 + David Harrison da...@olansa.co.uk wrote: Perhaps someone from Devuan could approach xfce's core developers and confirm they're not about to spot-weld themselves to systemd any time soon? They seem approachable enough. I'm happy to ask but as a non-dev my

Re: [Dng] LoginKit on the pre-alpha

2015-02-20 Thread Jude Nelson
Congratulations Dima! This is wonderful news for the future of Devuan! On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dima Krasner d...@dimakrasner.com wrote: Hello folks, Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play nicely with LoginKit instead of logind. http://i.imgur.com/1PTI6L5.png

Re: [Dng] about mdev and udev

2015-02-20 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 09:08:56PM +0100, Godefridus Daalmans wrote: About that error with the mdev packaging: if you purge udev, does that mean you need the old-fashioned /dev/MAKEDEV script back to create the device nodes? it's in Debian package makedev. and it says Conflicts: udev, but

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 07:09:28PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:21:27PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread John Morris
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 14:32 -0500, Gravis wrote: RPC had already been solved in a general way by SunRPC (ONCRPC) before either GNOME or KDE existed interesting I'd never read about those until now. however, there was no GPL (compatible?) version for Linux (still isn't?) and the internet

[Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:27:55PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ Somehow, this inspired me to poke at packaging mdev. I don't have a website or apt repository atm, so I can't provide a deb. But here's the source in git:

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 20 Feb 09:03 -0600, Didier Kryn wrote:     Guys, I don't think there is contradiction between server and desktop. There is a difference in the user base and installed applications, not in the OS. dbus and udev/eudev/mdev/vdev/ are just useful services which make life easier if they

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:36:20AM -0500, william moss wrote: FreeBSD supports XFCE Via its package manager (pkg) or /usr/ports, so it must be possible to run XFCE w/o the systemd daemon(s) or shared objects. Also, I configured server farms for decades (retired now) and a simple GUI was

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:27:55PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ Somehow, this inspired me to poke at packaging mdev. I don't have a website or apt

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Jaromil
dear Isaac, On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Isaac Dunham wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 04:27:55PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ Somehow, this inspired me to poke at packaging mdev. I don't have a website or apt repository atm, so I

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Gravis
CDE (common desktop environment) Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment now what is Inferno? --Gravis On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:36:20AM -0500,

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
isaac i get cannot stat /etc/modprobe.d/* when doing the update-initramfs -u, hope that's ok... SPLAT :) dozens of unknown user/group root:root on line 20 ... about 100 of those... Gave up on ... hang on let me take a screenshot... ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread william moss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/20/2015 09:30 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2015 20 Feb 05:55 -0600, Aldemir Akpinar wrote: I would say +1 for everything that is written with this e-mail and above. However, there's one thing here, there are more people running servers

[Dng] KDE systemd lock-in

2015-02-20 Thread Go Linux
We all knew this was coming . . . KDE Will Depend on 'logind' and 'timedated' in 6 Months https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/02/20/101235 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [Dng] XFCE et al

2015-02-20 Thread David Harrison
I've dabbled with FreeBSD and OpenIndiana VMs lately: xfce worked just as well on those as in Linux. Was doing a little reading yesterday. Apparently a new point release is imminent, which is good news considering xfce's slow pace of releases (if not development). The lovely Whisker menu has

Re: [Dng] XFCE et al

2015-02-20 Thread Jaromil
hi David, On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, David Harrison wrote: Perhaps someone from Devuan could approach xfce's core developers and confirm they're not about to spot-weld themselves to systemd any time soon? good idea, for future orientation They seem approachable enough. I'm happy to ask but as a

Re: [Dng] LoginKit on the pre-alpha

2015-02-20 Thread Jaromil
On 21 February 2015 06:13:29 CET, Jude Nelson jud...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Dima! This is wonderful news for the future of Devuan! On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Dima Krasner d...@dimakrasner.com wrote: Hello folks, Good news on the logind front! I got the pre-alpha to play

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:42:43PM -0500, Gravis wrote: CDE (common desktop environment) Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment now what is Inferno? Long answer:

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:30:17PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: I should have a fix soon. awesome. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [Dng] KDE systemd lock-in

2015-02-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:59:33 -0800 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: We all knew this was coming . . . KDE Will Depend on 'logind' and 'timedated' in 6 Months https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/02/20/101235 This is precisely what I'd expect from the KDE project. They were

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Jude Nelson
Nevertheless, RPC had already been solved in a general way by SunRPC (ONCRPC) before either GNOME or KDE existed. Heck, the earliest versions predate Linux. Given the combined functionality offered by PolicyKit/Polkit and dbus, I'm beginning to think that FreeDesktop has succeeded in

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:42:43PM -0500, Gravis wrote: CDE (common desktop environment) Not familiar with that. Is it related to Inferno? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment That's it. By the way, it does work on Debian (though I'm not sure if the sysvinit script

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:21:27PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:30:17PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Re: [Dng] WIP: mdev packaging

2015-02-20 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 06:21:27PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Isaac Dunham ibid...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:30:17PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: I should have a fix soon. awesome. And pushed. HTH,

Re: [Dng] OT: Linux kernel and the force behind it

2015-02-20 Thread Gravis
RPC had already been solved in a general way by SunRPC (ONCRPC) before either GNOME or KDE existed interesting I'd never read about those until now. however, there was no GPL (compatible?) version for Linux (still isn't?) and the internet didn't have it's information as organized back then.

[Dng] about mdev and udev

2015-02-20 Thread Godefridus Daalmans
About that error with the mdev packaging: if you purge udev, does that mean you need the old-fashioned /dev/MAKEDEV script back to create the device nodes? it's in Debian package makedev. and it says Conflicts: udev, but that doesn't mean it gets re-installed automagically after udev is