Re: [DNG] Recreational Software, was Re: history

2020-08-09 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 09.08.20 02:31, terryc wrote: > On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 00:33:00 -0500 > John Morris wrote: > > Snipping the Pol, Para and not mentioning Cap. > >> Or like people who still run Windows after >> decades of failure and breathtaking security flaws, but they just know >> the next release is going to

Re: [DNG] Ascii to Beowulf upgrade - 32% slowdown !

2020-06-13 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 12.06.20 13:02, d...@d404.nl wrote: > On 12-06-2020 12:49, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I just upgraded from ascii to beowulf a pretty decent laptop, equipped >> with a core i7 and 8GB of RAM. >> >> I upgraded everything in place: so same desktop environment, same >>

[DNG] Netman Communication

2015-12-10 Thread Patrick Erdmann
Hi, would it be possible to use github comments or a seperate mailing list for Netman? Some days it feels like this is the Netman Mailing list and Devuan is a little sub project of Netman. I would be very happy if we find a solution for this issue. -- Kind regards Patrick Erdmann XMPP/Mail

Re: [DNG] Systemd Shims

2015-08-09 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 09.08.2015 12:02, Rainer Weikusat wrote: Mark S Bilk m...@cosmicpenguin.com writes: It seems to me that it's good to have shim programs that satisfy dependencies of apps on systemd, each shim performing some systemd function. Here's why: Suppose there are 10,000 application programs

Re: [DNG] devuan LTS

2015-07-17 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 17.07.2015 11:25, Stephanie Daugherty wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 1:50 AM James Powell james4...@hotmail.com mailto:james4...@hotmail.com wrote: There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a

Re: [Dng] What about pulseaudio, avahi, ... ?

2015-04-01 Thread Patrick Erdmann
In my experience pulse should be optional. It works. Not good but it does what its made for (after years of development). But avahi is unstable... Does not work for me. I often had this problem: Network was not reachable, because of avahi. On 01.04.2015 21:33, Nuno Magalhães wrote: On Wed, Apr

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] Towards systemd-free packages

2015-02-14 Thread Patrick Erdmann
+1 for this pragmatic approach. On 14.02.2015 11:30, Jaromil wrote: hi Jack, Isaac, On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Jack L. Frost wrote: That's because by default X tries to hotplug input devices with evdev. And evdev requires libudev. There is a evdev fork that works with libsysdev tho:

Re: [Dng] John Goerzen asks, Has modern Linux lost its way?

2015-02-12 Thread Patrick Erdmann
On 12.02.2015 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 06:21:00 + KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:33:51AM +0200, Martijn Dekkers wrote: [cut] Whilst I am still utterly amazed with how awesome Linux servers are, I don't think we will ever get there