Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-02 Thread golinux
On 2022-08-01 10:16, Steve Litt wrote: On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 09:29 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: This "review" that has everybody's knickers in a twist is a tempest in a teapot. Let it go. Instead of getting all worked up about it, get even by joining the Devuan team and contributing someth

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-02 Thread terryc
On Mon, 01 Aug 2022 10:45:40 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 09:29 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > On 2022-08-01 01:33, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 13:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > >

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 09:29 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > This "review" that has everybody's knickers in a twist is a tempest in a > teapot. Let it go. Instead of getting all worked up about it, get even > by joining the Devuan team and contributing something useful towards our > next rele

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 09:29 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2022-08-01 01:33, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 13:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > > > devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 11:39 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 09:09 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > On 2022-07-31 07:29, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > > > > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > > > devuan.org, together with a response answering the criti

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread golinux
On 2022-08-01 01:33, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 13:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in detail? Yes. SteveT No, NO and N! devuan.org is NOT a social me

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread Peter Duffy
On Mon, 2022-08-01 at 11:39 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > If one of the IT > news sites like register.com got interested in the debate, it would > probably be good publicity for devuan, if nothing else. For "register.com", read "theregister.com". Apologies - I should have checked before posting.

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-08-01 Thread Peter Duffy
On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 09:09 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2022-07-31 07:29, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > > devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in > > detail? > > > > devuan.org is not a social news s

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 09:09 -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2022-07-31 07:29, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > > devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in > > detail? > > > [snip] > > But beating our own dru

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2022-07-31 at 13:29 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote: > Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on > devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in > detail? Yes. SteveT ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org http

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread golinux
On 2022-07-31 09:14, tito via Dng wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 13:29:18 +0100 Peter Duffy wrote: Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in detail? I think yes and to the comments section of the article. Cia

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread tito via Dng
On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 13:29:18 +0100 Peter Duffy wrote: > On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 06:07 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread golinux
On 2022-07-31 07:29, Peter Duffy wrote: Is it worth while considering putting a link to the article on devuan.org, together with a response answering the criticisms in detail? devuan.org is not a social news service for trivia. If any Devuan articles were to be posted, it should be these:

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread o1bigtenor via Dng
On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 7:29 AM Peter Duffy wrote: > > On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 06:07 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spr

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread Peter Duffy
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 06:07 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD > > > > I thought most of the Devuan review was accu

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-31 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi Antony, list, Antony Stone writes: > On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 12:07:53, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: >> > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ >> > >> > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD >> >

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 17:10 +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 16:47:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Inconvenient to newbies? LOL, compare it to *too or Slackware :-) > > Have I missed something - are there spinoffs from Gentoo which also end in > too? > > Just intrigued at yo

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Syeed Ali
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:20:51 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > > "To use and understand Devuan, you must change your mindset and > > perception of the distribution’s > >  core beliefs. Because, in my perspective, Devuan is first > > philosophy and secondarily a Linux distribution." > > > > T H A T '

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Syeed Ali
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:14:10 +0200 tito via Dng wrote: > Of the listed distributions only MX and Slackware rank betteer on > distrowatch.com, the other rank at about the same positions as Devuan. I never did understand distrowatch. Plenty of people just go to their distro directly, so distrowat

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Antony Stone > wrote: > > On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 16:47:59, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Inconvenient to newbies? LOL, compare it to *too or Slackware :-) > > Have I missed something - are there spinoffs from Gentoo which also end in > too

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 16:47:59, Steve Litt wrote: > Inconvenient to newbies? LOL, compare it to *too or Slackware :-) Have I missed something - are there spinoffs from Gentoo which also end in too? Just intrigued at your (twice, now) use of the wildcard. Antony. -- You can spend the wh

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 16:42 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 30/07/2022 à 12:07, Steve Litt a écrit : > > I thought most of the Devuan review was accurate and complimentary. However, > > I've > > never thought of Devuan as "retro" or particularly inconvenient for newbies. > > It's Debian itself

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 09:26 -0300, Fernando M. Maresca via Dng wrote: > I, however, really don't know if the author is malicious or simply ignorant; > these days there's a hord of people that think Debian's difficult. I > don't know why. I can think of only one reason: Debian's idealogical purity

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 30/07/2022 à 12:07, Steve Litt a écrit : I thought most of the Devuan review was accurate and complimentary. However, I've never thought of Devuan as "retro" or particularly inconvenient for newbies.     It's Debian itself which is known as inconvenient to newbies, hence Devuan, of course

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread o1bigtenor via Dng
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 7:26 AM Fernando M. Maresca via Dng wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 01:14:10PM +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:07:53 -0400 > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > > > https://linuxiac.com/best-sy

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Fernando M. Maresca via Dng
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 01:14:10PM +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:07:53 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > > > I think the author knows nothing abou

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 13:14 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:07:53 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2022-07-30 at 12:55 +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > > I'm rather more amazed that he labels Devuan (and therefore by extension > Debian too) as "retro" and yet gives a pretty complimentary review, in > comparison, of Slackware! ROFLMAO you're right. SteveT

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Curtis Maurand
I agree with Anthony’s assessment. I’ve been ising the mate desktop on devuan since ascii. my only complaint is lack of user management tools in the control panel. It’s a pretty minor beef since I’m ver comfortable on the command line. —Curtis Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 30, 2022, at 7:14

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread tito via Dng
On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 06:07:53 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD > > > > I thought most of the Devuan review was ac

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 30 July 2022 at 12:07:53, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD > > I thought most of the Devuan review was accur

Re: [DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 2022-07-29 at 14:27 +0200, tito via Dng wrote: > https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ > > I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD > I thought most of the Devuan review was accurate and complimentary. However, I've never thought of Devuan as "

[DNG] article about devuan

2022-07-29 Thread tito via Dng
https://linuxiac.com/best-systemd-free-linux-distributions/ I think the author knows nothing about devuan and spreads FUD Ciao, Tito ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng