www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/22/devuan_1_0_0_released/
Cheers,
Ron.
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that one can ignore the will of the majority in the name of democracy
and institute a dictatorship in the name of freedom
nned, like ballot, crashing the system
> is not a big deal; which matters is to not deliver a wrong result.
> Better crash than give a wrong result.
In other words, always fail safe.
Cheers,
Ron.
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The world really isn't any worse.
It's just that th
ever forget that any complex system will work most of the time in
partial-failure mode...
Cheers,
Ron.
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pendant deux jours - de poésie, jamais.
-- Charles Baudelaire
as he has to know whether it is a unix/linux system or a
systemd system, the two being rather different in their management...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Eat drink and be merry,
for tomorrow we may diet.
to use systemd.
The choice exists already: the user can either use systemd running Debian, or
not use it running Devuan.
Cheers,
Ron.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again, it is because he adored
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:21:58 +0100
KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
>
> https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie_beta/embedded/devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta2_arm64_raspi3.img.xz
Would it run on the RP-2 ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Physics
ISTR having seen a mention of this go past, I now have a Raspberry Pi, and
cannot find where to download it ;-3(
Does it still exist ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Toddlers are the stormtroopers
of the Lord of Entropy
nd
> therefore which one to consider defective and not use?
>
> Do I need to wipe the missing drive completely before I connect it?
> (I have another machine to do this on, using a USB-to-SATA interface).
Picked up from somewhere, and used a couple times already. Long !
Cheers
th
> that in place of Adblock (any variant).
Have you considered rolling your own add-blocking with a list of unwanted sites
in /etc/hosts ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you,
snore and you sleep alone.
olored "TOR" icon on your iPhone
> is that the Jackboots can easily see it and know you're using it. But if
> *EVERYONE* has it on their phone, it's no longer nearly as useful for
> identifying people of interest.
Is it that difficult to change the icon,
the
> sockets into which the windings are plugged: This technology is called
> socket activation. The transmission drives the chain, which drives the
> front wheel.
A chain-driven front-wheel-drive noddy bike ? The mind boggles...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Nous avons tous assez
it,
> and when I restart it offers to reestablish all ite tabs it had
> before, and after that procedure it's usable again. Memory leak
> perhaps?
I found that at times, when some sites like Facebook are opened in a tab,
Firefox sometimes uses up 100% of cpu as reported by
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:04:07 +0100
Jochen Fahrner <j...@fahrner.name> wrote:
> The next step after "no systemd" should be "no gnome".
Move from Gtk to Qt ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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You're only young once,
bu
put DHCP server on this computer
>
> 8) Verify lookup of devuan.org
> a) If not, run some intelligent diagnostic software
Cheers,
Ron.
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Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
-- Leo Rosten, on W.C. Fields
ofit from it during that time.
Introduced to make research economically viable.
Cheers,
Ron.
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Der Gedanke an den Selbstmord ist ein starkes Trostmittel:
Mit ihm kommt man gut über manche böse Nacht hinweg.
-- Friedrich
nly, I'll try yes. Different strokes. You'll never get
> nonfree software, and I'll have maximal chance of getting an
> installation running.
Ready to bet the open-source talibans will find all kinds of excuses not to do
this.
They clam to be for freedom of choice, but some are as
all without having to go and
hunt firmwares under the excuse that they are not open source, open-source
talibans are doing exactly what they condemn in the systemd talibans: both take
away from the user his liberty of choice.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
L'homme ne peut
lable to all, on
the Internet.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Caelum, non animum mutant
qui trans mare currunt.
-- Horace
-- http://www.olgiati-in-
On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 09:59:29 -0400
Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> Have things changed?
ISTR that they changed between Android 4 and Android 5; my 4 tablet mounted
directly, while for my daughter's 5 phone I had to install some packages.
Chee
ment is still true.
>
> The workaround given that time was to make a image of the whole device, make
> that image immutable, and mount the partions of that image.
Would mounting as ext2 (non journaling) help in that case ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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Everyone talks a
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends
Apt::Install-Suggests false;
Apt::Install-Recommends false;
Cheers,
Ron.
--
They that can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safe
On Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:12:26 +0200
Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote:
> but yes, its definitely not polite nor useful to obfuscate code that
> people uses.
No need to obfuscate when you program in Iverson's APL ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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There are three
lable in jessie), but it
> couldn't even see the camera. The only way I have been able to access the
> camera is through the thunar file manager at this address (which is in need
> of some translation):
Did you try gThumb ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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The plural of
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:55:27 +
hellekin <helle...@dyne.org> wrote:
> I'd like to suggest *netbeam*, also callable by `beammeup` or `beam [me]
> up [Scotty]`
I dont want to be beamed "up Scotty" ...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
As long
On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:50:46 +0100
aitor_czr <aitor_...@gnuinos.org> wrote:
> Sorry, i'm sending messages from the future once again.
In that case, could you let us know what name was finally chosen ? ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Kilroe
a starting point for a related websearch.
Simple enough to change this into:
user@devuan:~$ echo "xfce4-session" >> ~/.xinitrc
Cheers,
Ron.
--
The world really isn't any worse.
It's just that the news coverage is so much better.
rom
another distribution that used PCManfm as default, Thunar annoyed me so much
that I removed it completely.
It may have had to do with thunar refusing to recognize mime-types.
So the solution was:
# rm /usr/bin/thunar && ln -s /usr/bin/pcmanfm /usr/bin/thunar
Cheers,
Ron.
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ink Thunar to be a piece of
excrement...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-- B. Franklin
-- http://www
l be more geek-like than the average Debian user, and will be know
how to find and install whatever package they need which is not installed by
default.
So I would suggest we keep the default install as small as possible.
And since I dont have any holidays, Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all.
R
mounted ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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Selre bið æghwæe þæt he hsi freond wrece, þonne he fella murne.
-- Beowulf
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On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 22:22:36 +0100
Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some restrictions on the unique-lable length should be put in place
> not to end up with very long combersome drive names.
USB drive are commonly vfat, which limits labels to 11 characters...
C
nt by the ID so
> it might look like /mnt/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_0FEAEC2F-0:0-part1
> and /mnt/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_0FEAEC2F-0:0-part2?
My two-pence worth: If the partition has a label, use that and mount at
/media/label
(Why /mnt ?)
Cheers,
Ron.
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We can complain bec
ed the citation. This means that the citation is left only
> because the author is too lazzy to cut it.
>
> Hence top-post, should be replaced by no citation at all. And when
> citation is usefull, please use bottom-post.
In other words: TRIM YOUR PO
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:02:49 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> And an advantage of mutt is that it does *not* automatically open html or
> other non-plain-text files on you/
Neither does Claws-Mail, unless you have added the respective add-ons.
C
Abend 0C7 (or 0CB) anyone ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Physics is like sex:
sure, it may give some practical results,
but that's not why we do it.
be heard and understood...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.
All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
(Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid).
he can
> state that in his reply.
That may be linked to your reluctance to bother with trimming the posts you
reply to.
There is no need to quote the entire original post...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Death to all fanatics.
irst choice, since I'm already very familiar with debian.
Have you considered IPFire ? It is a firewall distribution, derived from IPCop,
and they have a stable 2.15 release that runs on the RaspberryPI B (NOT B+) and
an Alpha 2.17 that runs on the B+.
http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/hardware
) ?
Cheers,
Ron.
1 As in beer
2 As in speech
--
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
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ub2
So that my / partition gets mounted as /dev/sda1
Cheers,
Ron.
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman;
there are only the ones who do not know
how to make themselves attractive.
--
for all; doing otherwise would bloat the
> > interfaces file for the sole sake of this description.
> That makes sense - provided that it's still possible to manually add entries
> which fall into that other 1%.
I hope so, since my home LAN is all fixed IP addresses. ;-3)
Chee
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 15:03:00 +0100
Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote:
The plague has come, but not in the form of a deadly bacterium, but in
the new trend of, sacrificing function for fashion.
Or the megalomaniac We are Systemd of Borg, resistance is futile...
Cheers,
Ron
on
the mailinglist and in the irc channels indicate a desire to make the
init system just another choice.
Should the choice be offered within Devuan ?
Or should we tell people who want systemd You have the choice of installing
Debian ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A team effort is a lot
of this...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
There's no trick to being a humorist
when you have the whole government working for you.
-- Will Rogers
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If I wanted my users to use sudo, I would install them *ubuntu...
Cheers,
Ron.
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On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:20:03 -0400
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org wrote:
Or, as in APL, use = for assignment
Sorry, read use A (left arrow) 1 2 3 4 for assignment
Cheers,
Ron.
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And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing
what
choice is to use := for assignment and == for
equality. Forget about = altogether.
Or, as in APL, use = for assignment and = for equality (all in one line ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
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And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing
what the dictionary says it means
arrow symbol) (b + c)
Cheers,
Ron.
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Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
-- Lazarus Long
know, and that could be
anything from improperly updated software like Bash, to SSH, to anything.
Or even getting credentials through phishing ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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...Nessun maggior dolore,
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:38:43 +0200
Franco Lanza next...@nexlab.it wrote:
traditionally UNIX has vi, this is why i'm suggesting it.
Except that Debian does not have it when a boot prob sends you to the rescue
console ;-3(
Cheers,
Ron.
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Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis
is that OK ? that pops up if such
install in found needed, and we should all be in agreement.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
A poet who reads his verse in public
may have other nasty habits.
--Lazarus Long
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:25:42 -0300
hellekin helle...@dyne.org wrote:
the official Devuan network installer should not, IMO, support this case. It
is not against users, but against manufacturers.
So you want to punish users, for the sins of manufacturers ?
Cheers,
Ron
to infect
their product with systemd dependencies...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny.
Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
-- Bruce Coville
million killed by the Nazi did not happen,
and that they are all G.W.Bush-hating Democrats...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Quam tigris in tergo vehebat;
Exsterna profecta
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:47:18 +0200
Anto arya...@chello.at wrote:
There are a lot more packages that depend on systemd components on
wheezy-backports. That is why I decided to downgrade all packages to
wheezy and removed wheezy-backports from my source.list.
Thanks, Anto.
Cheers,
Ron
://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main
Am I safe from a systemd infection ?
Cheers,
Ron.
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We'll cross that bridge
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are dead keen on a forum, at least please go for one of those that are
ambivalent, and can be accessed as a forum as well as distribute all postings
as emails.
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest
learned
over the years to keep our boxes running suddenly become unusable, no ?
And suddenly everyone has to buy support from RH...
Cheers,
Ron.
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true
On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 00:11:55 +0200
toto titi voidtothete...@gmail.com wrote:
Nearly as complex as a Microsoft operating system, look at that :
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/
Please, Sir, could we have a registry ?
Cheers,
Ron.
--
No Husband Has Ever Been
, the reason people originally bought graphic
cards (Hercules IIRC) was to get some graphic display posibility, in days when
the PC could only display text in MDA mode...
Cheers,
Ron.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave,
his fetters fall. He frees
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:04:06 +0100
Wolfgang Pirker w_pir...@gmx.de wrote:
Some other XFCE users might prefer the classical
XFCE application menu.
I do ;-3)
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Women should be obscene and not absurd.
-- Groucho
the entire knowledge-base on the web
(potentially) available for users so they can troubleshoot problems outside of
network connectivity, even if they haven't a clue what an ESSID is.
It should be easy to ship Devuan with a Wicd icon on the desktop...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
Democracy
On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:53:01 -0800
Usspookes Lovesystemd usspookslovesyste...@muchomail.com wrote:
FUCK YOU
Qu'en termes gracieux ces choses là sont dites...
Cheers,
Ron.
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Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
Homo sapiens is the only animal
of the spectrum...
Cheers,
Ron.
--
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and the experience of ages,
may be preserved by quotation.
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