Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-24 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/03/2015 20:10, Nuno Magalhães a écrit : On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mark R. Whitewhit...@gmail.com wrote: Just to be clear: I've seen a lot of cross talk about the possibility of systemd being put into Devuan via a sandbox or even having the systemd API written in. Is it safe to

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:47:32PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: A link to Revolution OS was recently posted on irc. I had never seen it before. It seems that the cycle has come full circle and now Devuan is going back to the future and reinventing the wheel all over again. Only this time the

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-24 Thread Jaromil
On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:47:32PM -0700, Go Linux wrote: A link to Revolution OS was recently posted on irc. I had never seen it before. It seems that the cycle has come full circle and now Devuan is going back to the future and reinventing the

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: I did argue for some of things I think are sensible, just like everybody else here. All of them can be implemented _without_ systemd (and I have or had them running that way). Yes, one of the ideas I like was first proposed by Lennart, but

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread devuan . kn
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Jaromil - jaro...@dyne.org devuan.kn.0edf9dfcba.jaromil#dyne@ob.0sg.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, KatolaZ wrote: This sounds strange and new at the same time, since GCC was indeed designed to be portable and ported to several architectures since from the

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Jim Murphy
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:48 AM, devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Jude Nelson - jud...@gmail.com devuan.kn.ae5676beef.judecn#gmail@ob.0sg.net wrote: The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the least common denominator for everything. That

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Jude Nelson
GCC was deliberately making things interdepend on each other, even without technical reasons, simply to prevent commercial entities to replace the e.g. front-end of the compiler with some proprietary code and then have that use the GPL backend. This would enable a new, proprietary language to

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mark R. White whit...@gmail.com wrote: Just to be clear: I've seen a lot of cross talk about the possibility of systemd being put into Devuan via a sandbox or even having the systemd API written in. Is it safe to assume that going forward that there will be no

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread KatolaZ
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:39:11PM +0100, devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: I think everyone is in agreement that they fulfill the letter of the license. The spirit may be lacking especially in regards to access. Being an enormous, interdependent hairball simply puts the code out of reach

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-23 Thread Jaromil
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2015 22 Mar 22:09 -0500, Peter Olson wrote: On March 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Peter Olson wrote: RMS didn't call me a troll, he answered the question. Somebody else took it upon

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread devuan . kn
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Jude Nelson - jud...@gmail.com devuan.kn.ae5676beef.judecn#gmail@ob.0sg.net wrote: The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the least common denominator for everything. That flat out stops progress. This is simply not true. A key hallmark of

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread Jaromil
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Peter Olson wrote: On March 21, 2015 at 6:36 PM Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long ago when it became obvious that it would

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread devuan . kn
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 2:34 AM, Joerg Reisenweber - reisenwe...@web.de devuan.kn.d76efe93d7.reisenweber#web...@ob.0sg.net wrote: From *root fs: any you like, even MSDOS (with some limitations) * to an undiscussed unsolicited *root fs: btrfs mandatory* is *not* the kind of progress I want to

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 11:29:54 devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: Considering that the blog post is all about putting an idea up for discussion I really do not see how that can be undiscussed and unsolicited. How should you get a discussion started on the internet? Considering how I clearly

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread devuan . kn
I think everyone is in agreement that they fulfill the letter of the license. The spirit may be lacking especially in regards to access. Being an enormous, interdependent hairball simply puts the code out of reach for all practical purposes as well as restricting use. Again, that's spirit

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread hellekin
Would it be possible to avoid offensive characterization of people who do not think along the same lines? Would it be possible to avoid gender-biased characterization of people who are participating in this list? Thank you == hk ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-22 Thread Peter Olson
On March 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Peter Olson wrote: RMS didn't call me a troll, he answered the question. Somebody else took it upon himself to refer to the question as trolling. I haven't decided yet whether to speak to that person

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Linuxito
Great reading. I knew RMS would answer something like that to that question, if it's licensed under GPL, it's free software, period. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Nextime next...@nexlab.it wrote: On March 21, 2015 3:34:28 PM WET, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: re all, perhaps

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Lars Noodén
On 21.03.2015 18:51, Linuxito wrote: Great reading. I knew RMS would answer something like that to that question, if it's licensed under GPL, it's free software, period. ( Actually it's LGPL [1] but ... ) I expect that he is thinking about it and will be thinking about it a while longer before

[Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Jaromil
re all, perhaps interesting to perceive the atmosphere, no trolling intended and please consider we shall not fight, rather seek undersanding and claim respect and the right to have different opinions than the majority. At Libreplanet (the GNU/FSF conference) today someone (who?? thanks for

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread P. T. Zoltowski
RMS stance is understandable, because he is also responsible for the current situation. He failed to predict it, and his dream is now turning into another Animal Farm, where some developers are becoming more equal than others (it's an open question if there was a better strategy possible when GPL

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
[...all...] Sounds familiar? It's because developing and earning money on support only will always lead to such pathologies. [...] Full ACK Internet and downloading complete distros (for free) kills the Linux FOSS ecosystem now, like downloading mp3 music did kill the music ecosystem. Suse

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 00:40:45 Joerg Reisenweber wrote: kills the Linux FOSS ecosystem now, This time read ecosystem as economic system. The ecologic system aka community is probably still fine. RH just establishes the new better economic system:

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread devuan . kn
Hi Jörg, I am going to get beaten for this, but that proposal is actually brilliant! Well, brilliant if you are not bothered by btrfs that is:-) But that is what I got backups for. While I do not care about all the sandboxing that got mixed into this, the rest got me really thinking about my

[Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Robert Storey
Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long ago when it became obvious that it would effectively dump his beloved Hurd project into the trash can. If he really called someone a troll for asking his opinion of systemd,

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 01:15:18 devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: Hi Jörg, I am going to get beaten for this, but that proposal is actually brilliant! Well, brilliant if you are not bothered by btrfs that is:-) But that is what I got backups for. Besides me for one not liking the idea to *get*

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread devuan . kn
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Joerg Reisenweber - reisenwe...@web.de devuan.kn.d76efe93d7.reisenweber#web...@ob.0sg.net wrote: Besides me for one not liking the idea to *get* *forced* to use btrfs for /, The only way not to be forcing anybody is to stick with the least common denominator for

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Sun 22 March 2015 01:42:33 devuan...@spamgourmet.net wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Joerg Reisenweber - reisenwe...@web.de devuan.kn.d76efe93d7.reisenweber#web...@ob.0sg.net wrote: Besides me for one not liking the idea to *get* *forced* to use btrfs for /, The only way not

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Olson
On March 21, 2015 at 11:34 AM Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: re all, perhaps interesting to perceive the atmosphere, no trolling intended and please consider we shall not fight, rather seek undersanding and claim respect and the right to have different opinions than the majority. At

Re: [Dng] rumors on RMS about systemd at libreplanet

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Olson
On March 21, 2015 at 6:36 PM Robert Storey robert.sto...@gmail.com wrote: Hopefully, it's just a rumor, though it sounds real. Indeed, I've been wondering why RMS hasn't commented on systemd long ago when it became obvious that it would effectively dump his beloved Hurd project into the