On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 02:35:39PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> > (Why /mnt ?)
>
> Tradition. It exists on all distros I've ever seen, and it's used for
> mountpoints. Do you think the more modern, file manager-centric /media
> would be a better choice? That would be no more difficult.
Here's
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 10:31:25PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Wait. Then what *would* you be inclined to type in?
/mnt/sdd1 would be perfect; /mnt/[label] if available would be fine
too.
Greg
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On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 03:05:16PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> /mnt/sdd1 and /mnt/sdd2 would be incredibly easy to implement: I could
> have it done within an hour.
>
> The only thing stopping me is that /mnt/sdd1 and /mnt/sdd2 say nothing
> about which physical thumb drive it refers to. And at
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 09:24:44AM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Maybe I missed something - I don't understand why your kernel
> was not able to mount the root fs.
I think it was able to mount the root fs. From what I recall, it did
say mounted ext4 file system on /dev/mmcblk0p2. Also, from
On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 12:07:49PM +0100, Jaromil wrote:
> this sounds strange. since its very inception we have struggled to keep
> Dyne.org infrastructure and practices as friendly as possible for people
> with low or even no vision, since some of our funding members had such
> conditions.
otice there
is no swap. For the purposes of this mini howto, I didn't need it. If
you need it, you can either create a partition for it, or apt-get
install dphys-swapfile. A couple of things worth noting:
$ cat /etc/devuan_version
jessie
$ aptitude search '~i systemd'
It isn't installed, none
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 07:26:50PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> I think, it is irritating to first having to scroll down text others
> have written rather than the text the latest poster has written. If
> the latest poster wants his readers to refer to ealier posts, he can
> state that in his
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 12:47:05AM +0100, Patrick Erdmann wrote:
> 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
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:47:31AM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> I have considered other SOC devices, but it looks like the pi2
> has the most ram out of all of them. Thanks to everyone for your input so far.
I had a more careful look at the banana pi, and see it has at least 1g
of ram. I
Hi all,
I think the subject makes my question clear enough, but I'll provide
some background. The x86_64 machine I'm currently using as a
router/freenet node/i2p node has some components which are on the
brink of failing, the mobo seems to be one of those. So, I'm looking
at what to replace it
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:36:12PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I'm curious about the use as a router. How many physical net
> connections can a raspberry pi have?
From what I read, the 2nd generation B has one 10/100 ethernet port
which is a network card on one of the pi's usb ports. Besides
On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 07:25:31PM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> I tend to make a distinction between clueless and newbie, not just in
> IT either, but that's just me. Driving vehicles comes to mind with the
> new self-driven hype.
Hey, don't put down the driverless cars. A lot of us blind folks
On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 09:34:08AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
> - A partitionner more user-friendly than parted or fdisk:
> gparted if GUI is possible, or cfdisk, which has a simple curses
> interface. The drawback of cfdisk is that it doesn't know GPT
> partitions tables.
I don't have any GPT
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 09:20:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Here are the facts: While the rest of us, *especially* me, flapped our
> lips about a NetworkManager replacement, Edward actually did it.
It's worth adding I think that for those of you who have a low opinion of
Edward's attempt,
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:30:59AM +0200, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote:
> Il 18/ago/2015 12:53 AM, "Gregory Nowak" <g...@gregn.net> ha scritto:
> > As I described in another thread earlier, I tried doing an aptitude
> > search sysv on a fresh install of debian jess
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:59:55AM +0200, poitr pogo wrote:
> i'm against moderation.
> if you find his posts disturbing use killfile instead.
I have to agree here. He's not spamming, he's expressing his unbounded
enthusiasm for all things systemd (call it trolling if you
want). Frankly, I've
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:40:46AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
No. I installed sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils, rebooted, and
then did:
# apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
# echo -e '\n\nPackage: *systemd*\nPin: origin \nPin-Priority: \
-1'
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:30:59AM +0200, Riccardo Boninsegna wrote:
I've never seen sysvinit-core dropped from Jessie or Squatch (I can't
remember the name of Testing), but systemd (if not systemd-sysv) is
currently an offer you can't refuse for almost any mass-market GUI
software, and then
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 10:13:45AM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
Since
I'm a fan of the Raspberry Pi, I definitely want to see another distro
available for it that is systemd-free. There is also FreeBSD for the Pi,
though I understand it is very much a work in progress, but I'm interested
in
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:58:19PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
As someone else pointed out, the control flow code could be abstracted
away into some kind of 'universal init script' and individual ones would
just need to define the start and stop commands. And there's nothing
horrible about
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:25:50PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
I am just curious, but did you try installing sysvinit and systemd-shim?
Theoretically, it should give you System 5 startup and shutdown, while
keeping
compatibility with things that depend on systemd, like Gnome.
No. If it was
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:53:37PM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
=( Bummer!
There must be a way to get what you want, although I honestly do not know
enough about systemd to help you out. Like yourself, I am more familiar with
the System 5 way of doing things.
Wish I could be more
On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 02:34:52PM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote:
I was of the impression, that to modify the kernel, a PhD was a must.
Where did you get such an impression? The only things you need to
modify the kernel are the ability to program in c, a sufficient
understanding of kernel
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 03:17:11PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
Of course I have to guess whether the device has
been plugged in as /dev/sdb, or /dev/sde, or whatever. In case of
(frequent) doubt, I switch to a root console with control-alt-F1 and a
login, unplug the device, and plug it in
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:49:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian
model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a working
operating system under a complete installation, and dedicate the rest of all
packages to
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:19:50AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
The only feasible way I can see to make anything similar to what you
seem to have in mind is by using BSD-like ports for non-core
components. It is impossible for the ancillary stuff (whatever it
means) to remain in sync with the core
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 08:16:06PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
I never said it was set in stone.
All I suggested was if you install a package like SDL, then you install all
of SDL, not just part of it. This reduces overhead of making multiple
packages, simplifies the distribution, and makes
Hi all,
the recent discussions here have made me think about what features I
would like devuan to have which debian doesn't currently have. One
feature that comes to mind is a long term support branch like what
ubuntu has. I think this would be great for those of us who are
running servers, and
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 04:41:13AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote:
Previously i was proposing a change of the default editor and the
default MTA.
Well, my proposition get a lot of traction in the list, and i'm really
happy of that, it would mean that you care about devuan, and this IS a
great
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:36:46AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
Is ascii the set of 7 bit characters where space is 32 and tilde is
127, or does it have a different context in this email?
It is that, but is also the name for the next release of devuan after
jessie. Look at www.devuan.org. The
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:25:10AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
The year of updates was general availability. When that ended, regular
squeeze archives got moved away, and a new repository, squeeze-lts, was
created. And it's still alive and supported, on a set of architectures
reduced to
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:33:48AM +0200, Michael Bütow wrote:
Happy to say that after I voted it was 633 users for and 634 against
(not planning to use it).
Due to the construction of the poll, the plan to avoid figure includes
those of us who will be forced to use it anyway due to work
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 07:16:25PM +0200, Michael Bütow wrote:
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+1 for not changing the defaults at this time.
I feel this could start a multitude of little holy wars (editor, mta,
etc.) which we don't need right now that the first goal -
On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 05:31:26PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'm running wheezy on my server.
The only package I have that contain 'systemd' in their names are:
libystemd-login0
I don't find it sneaking other systemd things onto my system when I do
the usual security upgrades. Maybe if
On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 09:53:16PM +0630, Ста Деюс wrote:
Probably. Then, excuse me for the noise. But you may know how it
happens: you just see something that you would help with. -- Then you
have ether to reply or to walk by. -- Going to look for whole the
thread -- is extra task. So it
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:59:06AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
Not sure what other apps you're looking for on a text
console, so I'll put in a mention of Nama, a fairly
versatile multitrack DAW that includes a terminal interface.
https://freeshell.de/~bolangi/cgi1/nama.cgi/00home.html
There
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 01:59:32PM +0300, Aldemir Akpinar wrote:
On 4 Jul 2015 13:15, Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote:
Yes indeed. Soon it is going to be systemd/linux not gnu/linux
LOL! Actually, I'm reading this thread, and wondering whether I should
snort with laughter, or cry. I want to do
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 07:58:44PM +0630, Ста Деюс wrote:
You just didn't mention your circumstances before ny
advice.
I did actually, but in another thread which you might have missed.
But i still do not understand the value of the reader from what i have
read in the gnome-orca package
Hello everyone,
I've been lurking on this list for a couple of weeks, and this is my
first post here. I'd like to start by saying a big thank you to those
working hard to bring us debian jessie and beyond without
systemd. I like to keep an open mind, so after reading arguments for
and against
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