Re: [DNG] Earth-friendly micro-desktop Devuan demo

2016-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
is that, 20 seconds? Add in unskilled implementers and systemd's propensity to start hundreds of processes, and pretty soon it takes some serious time to boot, if you count logging in, which you must, because the way they do things some things can't be completed til login. SteveT S

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
i Didier, I've never encountered closures as described by Jaromil, but they're a pretty handy thing easily done in many languages, with Lua leading the list. Here's something that might help explain a little bit: http://troubleshooters.com/codecorn/lua/luaclosures.htm SteveT Steve

Re: [DNG] Wirth's law

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
s a lot like worrying about your car's fuel economy and what will happen to it if you let your car's alternator charge your cell phone. In summary: Complexity has a cost. Be cost conscious. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Te

[DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This is a screenshot of my buddy's kernel menuconfig: https://sanitarium.net/x.png SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques __

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
se if most Debian users > are desktop users, perhaps it's for the better that they went with > systemd as the default. It gives more credence to Devuan as the > professional choice. I wouldn't split it desktop/server or desktop/professional. It didn't split that way. Very

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
> A point of grammar: Wrong verb tense. > > Systemd hasn't stopped at just init, As I once said on Debian-User, Redhat won't be satisfied until cat requires systemd. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Tec

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-26 Thread Steve Litt
you may safely assume that s/he is either utterly clueless or deliberately obfuscating the discussion. = True on the face of it. A person saying the whole is a mere part is either stupid or up to no good. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
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Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
27;, e.g., upower, udisks2, D-Bus, > udev, and all the rest -- not just systemd. Exactly! SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _

Re: [DNG] OT: question about mailing lists

2016-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
is typically done when the person has been using horrible netiquette and rather than start a list-based flame war, you contact him (and perhaps a couple eyewitnesses) exclusively. 2) When you've mentioned somebody not on the list and want to CC that person. SteveT Steve Litt July 201

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 00:48:12 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Simon Hobson (li...@thehobsons.co.uk): > > > I too did some checking. From practical experience, one of the > > ClamAV packages (IIRC it's clamd) has a hard dependency on > > libsystemd0. Using dpkg --force-depends to install only tha

[DNG] Linux-Speakup-friendly emails: was question about mailing lists

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
ty, I'll be doing the Linux-Speakup thing too. I didn't know about it before this email. So let me ask you: What standards of quoting are compatible with Linux-Speakup, and could you please elaborate on concise and meaningful quoting as it relates to people reading my replies with Linux-Speaku

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 11:37:48 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Thus, I'm rather surprised that some members (and ejected ex-members, > like Steve Litt) of debian-users seriously expected protracted > lobbying by them as non-members of the project was any sort of > pragmatic p

Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
ings. In all fairness to Rick, he was making his statements on SVLUG, and then, on DNG, *I* referenced the SVLUG archive of the SVLUG discussion, and only then did he repeat his assertions here. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting T

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
ed the LUG from electing new officers, essentially killing it. Constitutions are great, but you'd better be careful: The outcome flowing from its provisions might surprise you years later. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologis

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 11:44:17 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > > > True story. As one of ten founders of a LUG in 1999, and > > concerned about some future "evil group" "kidnapping" the LUG, I > > convi

Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news

2016-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
ially > after reaching stable and in the process of finalising the > Constitution and Social Contract. Personally, I'd recommend going *very* slowly on that social contract. It hasn't been needed yet, and the social contract was the hook on which Debian hung their "systemd

[DNG] Bad website CSS: was Devuan Sticker Poll

2016-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
ers touch the bottoms of the letters above them. It's *very* hard to read. I find this same insanely narrow line spacing on many devuan.org pages. Here's a screenshot: http://a3b3.com/stuff/devuan_org_compressed_lines.png SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Tec

Re: [DNG] Bad website CSS: was Devuan Sticker Poll

2016-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 18:51:57 + hellekin wrote: > On 07/30/2016 06:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Here's a screenshot: > > > > http://a3b3.com/stuff/devuan_org_compressed_lines.png > > > > Ouch. Can you please visit the following page a

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
see what each recommends brings to the table as far as enhancements for the package that was installed, and decide. I spoze it's extra work for the packagers, but it would really help Devuan people keep their machines clean and crisp. And it would be unique to Devuan. Steve

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
(within its limits). TeX is **HUGE**, and you don't want it unless you need it. And any author using asciidoc with the idea of outputting to PDF knows he needs either TeX (LaTeX probably) or some ugly XSLT transform, and can install the necessary stuff.

Re: [DNG] Help with ALSA, Pulseaudio and Mumble on Devuan

2016-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
g around, I think I have it working with > ALSA, so does that mean I should remove all references to Pulseaudio? I usually de-install all of Pulseaudio. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second

[DNG] Politics of IT in the U.S. government

2016-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
, I'm also saying we shouldn't go new for new's sake. I think this is ontopic at DNG because making interfaces few and thin is a philosophy. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http

Re: [DNG] IRC Channel

2016-08-03 Thread Steve Litt
; time :-) > > Didier Just install hexchat, connect to Freenode at the default no-ssl port (6667 I think), say /join #debianfork, and bang, you're there, and the rest is obvious. Later you can do ssl and all of that stuff. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager&

Re: [DNG] IRC Channel

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
you've got that down pat, if you want more control over everthing, you switch to the manual. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _

[DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, If I were making a general purpose menu program that might eventually end up in Devuan, would you hate me if I made it depend on MongoDB? Same question, but for YAML? Same question, for both? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Tech

[DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
or me and two or three other people on the planet. But sooner or later I'll make version 2 so everyone can benefit. I'll write it either in (ubiquitous) Python3 or (lightning fast) Lua. Using C for this would be swatting a fly with a cannon. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 fe

Re: [DNG] Politics of IT in the U.S. government

2016-08-04 Thread Steve Litt
cts in other objects. If I have several objects that are almost the same but have differences, I have no problem using inheritance. I'm just saying some people endorse it as the only valid paradigm, and when they try to use it as their only paradigm, their c

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
Or even Lisp S-expressions. I don't know how to do that. > > Or, if you waant to be elaborate, which Steve probably doesn't, a few > menu-creating macros to be called from Guile. I made menu-creating macros from Bash one time, and they worked very poorly. I've done a t

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
tterism. Might Lennart someday insert halloween code that precludes the use of dmenu or Openbox? If a Linux civil war is necessary, now is probably better than later. Reading https://wildanm.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/mdev-mini-udev-in-busybox/ , mdev seems to be a part of Busybox. I heard it through th

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
uch faster/cleaner for humans. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Would you guys hate me if...

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 23:43:33 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:15:24PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > And the preceding system is human readable, human parsable, and to a > > degree human creatable. But... > > > > Human creatable is relative. Ye

Re: [DNG] UMENU (v2)

2016-08-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 17:12:14 -0400 Brian Nash wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:36:06PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > >The last two items on the preceding list are why deployment is so > >problematic. On my system, each of my 237 submenus requires its > >own .mnu (menu des

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
pervisor. If I had a couple months with nothing else to do, I could write a supervisor. I'd need more than a year to write software that loads and maintains all devices, and might not be able to do it at all. Also, Skarnet is in the business of supervisors, that's what they do. That&

Re: [DNG] Fearsome rumblings from GNU

2016-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
uation into a filename? When the dust finally settles, if necessary one of us can write a ls substitute that does the right thing, whatever that turns out to be. We have much bigger fish to fry right now. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Te

[DNG] KVM/ksm: was SystemD's brownie points over non-systemd OSs.

2016-08-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:00:48 +0800 Brad Campbell wrote: > Just for the record, so does KVM if you turn on ksm. It actually > works very well for a free solution. I use Qemu all the time, with hardware assist. How would I turn on ksm? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager&#

Re: [DNG] SystemD's brownie points over non-systemd OSs.

2016-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
. . I would prefer to use the systemd-supplied components > (systemd-boot, systemd-networkd, systemd-resolved, etc) wherever > available as I believe this offers a more cohesive, UNIX-like working > environment." Brings back memories of reading "1984". SteveT Steve Litt Au

Re: [DNG] Bootloaders (was: SystemD's brownie points over non-systemd OSs)

2016-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
things." Sometimes a good, prophylactic fresh install is just what's needed. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Your computer clock: Was:Re: vdev

2016-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
and anything else you can do to keep your computer's time in check, because there's something about you... :-) By the way, I had to fire up my time machine to read this, because you haven't sent it yet. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Techni

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
from it. But for reasons stated in my previous two paragraphs, I think moving our target from vdev to eudev would be a bad idea. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
the same box at the same time. This coexistance would also require the directories containing the actual daemon supervising files to be distinctive of their init systems: Perhaps /etc/sv/s6, /etc/sv/runit, and /etc/sv/dtencore. The preceding six paragraphs are based on 10 minutes thought: They&#x

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:34:07 +0200 Harald Arnesen wrote: > Steve Litt [2016-08-12 19:47]: > > > I don't understand. Do you perhaps mean that sysvinit is PID1, and > > you use runit strictly as a process supervisor? The reason I ask > > this is, whatever acts as

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
sion. > > Please fix this. LOL, until he fixes it, here's what I did... :0: * ^From.*aitor_...@gnuinos.org * ^(To|Cc).*dng@lists.dyne.org .dng.badformat/ It's the best of both worlds. I get to read his stuff, but it doesn't confusingly intermix with everybody else's

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 02:24:14 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 00:22:43 -0400 (EDT) > Peter Olson wrote: > > > > On August 13, 2016 at 4:45 AM aitor_czr > > > wrote: > > > > As you know, today is August 12, not August 13.

Re: [DNG] vdev - udev is a dead end

2016-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
d. And when Red Hat buys maintainership of eudev? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailing

Re: [DNG] vdev

2016-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
y in the boot just after the network comes up, and run respawning ntpd some time after. Or buy another computer. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mg

Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)

2016-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
nce of Systemd? I have. Trouble is, I don't have enough money to make my project capable of winning a fork. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr __

Re: [DNG] vdev - udev is a dead end

2016-08-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 09:02:59 +0200 Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 13/08/2016 19:41, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 12:12:04 -0400 > > "Ismael L. Donis Garcia" wrote: > > > > > >> To my mind would be a better option to opt for eudev t

Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
s eno1 down. Crude, but VERY effective, and if you use the new ip commands, it works on every distro, even (urk) systemd distros. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/m

Re: [DNG] DNS at startup

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
hing DNS. I *could* create a package made out of djb's source code (which almost certainly won't change anymore) and my shellscripts to easily lay down a djbdns, fully configured. I think there's a patch to make djbdns work with ipv6, so my version2 could do that. SteveT Steve Litt Aug

Re: [DNG] lilo development has ended

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
it does 'unmaintained'. Did I just hear someone mention Fetchmail? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
any way of telling dnscache "use this root server if at all possible?" My idea, if it's possible, would be a way to have the office-wide caching and world resource conservation of a LAN level resolver, but still have a complete and capable host

Re: [DNG] Time sync at startup (was: vdev)

2016-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
ldapdns, NSD, rbdldnsd, and YADIFA do not > themselves cache data. Which of the preceding is most like a djbdns that does ipv6? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.tro

[DNG] I've begun UMENU version2

2016-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
works perfectly in Devuan. And thanks for all the suggestions in the discussion about UMENU2! SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr _

Re: [DNG] Distrowatch Devuan poll do-over

2016-08-19 Thread Steve Litt
f my opponents are playing by the rules. Or, as one of the characters in "Lucifer's Hammer" says toward the end of the book, "A society adopts the ethics they can afford." SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new

Re: [DNG] Distrowatch Devuan poll do-over

2016-08-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 14:06:24 -0400 fsmithred wrote: > For anyone who's interested in the results before they got wiped, I just voted again, "ready to use" again. I'm able to vote multiple times because I'm originally from Chicago. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 fe

Re: [DNG] Distrowatch Devuan poll do-over

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:53:18 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > > > I just voted again, "ready to use" again. I'm able to vote multiple > > times because I'm originally from Chicago. > > I was able to vote

[DNG] How bad would it be to require Python3?

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Litt
ing Python 3 instead of just plain Python be resented by those of us wanting minimal dependencies? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubles

Re: [DNG] How bad would it be to require Python3?

2016-08-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:50:49 +0200 Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 03:51:15PM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > > On 21/08/16 15:19, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Are there still people who have ONLY Python 2.x installed on their > > > computers, witho

Re: [DNG] How bad would it be to require Python3?

2016-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:34:17 -0400 fsmithred wrote: > On 08/21/2016 02:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > >> What do you mean by "default"? There is no default (other than > >> between versions of python 2 and between versions of python 3), > >> these tw

Re: [DNG] How bad would it be to require Python3?

2016-08-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 12:13:40 -0400 fsmithred wrote: > On 08/21/2016 11:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:34:17 -0400 > > fsmithred wrote: > > > >> On 08/21/2016 02:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > >> > >>>> What do y

Re: [DNG] Distrowatch Devuan poll do-over

2016-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 18:27:58 + (UTC) Go Linux wrote: > Looks like the second poll has ended. There's a new one up today and > voting is no longer an option. Here are the final results: > > Poll results for: The state of Devuan > > I have tried Devuan and it is ready to use: 95 (27%) > I

Re: [DNG] eudev [was: vdev]

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
es, I > still hang out there to advocate for non-systemd Linux. S/he posted > this link which finally pushed them over the edge and away from the > path that Debian has taken: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019657.html Oh, he's r

Re: [DNG] eudev [was: vdev]

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:01:20 + (UTC) Go Linux wrote: > On Tue, 8/23/16, Steve Litt wrote: > >> I agree that relying on anything connected to udev will likely not > >> be sustainable in the long term. I was reminded of this just > >> today in a private disc

Re: [DNG] eudev [was: vdev]

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
. It's our job to get out the word so bus1 fares no better than kdbus, because Lennart bragged about his plans when he gets the kernel to enforce use of systemd. What is the best way of getting the word out? SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Trou

[DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
estrictive. Expat's similar to some MIT and BSD licenses and the X11 license. Any opinions on which to choose? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr __

Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:31:18 -0400 (EDT) Peter Olson wrote: > > On August 24, 2016 at 1:20 AM Steve Litt > > wrote: > > [...] > > > A couple notes: The above Expat URL says Expat license is GPL > > compatible. I don't like GPLv3 because it'

Re: [DNG] eudev [was: vdev]

2016-08-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 11:37:53 +0800 Brad Campbell wrote: > On 24/08/16 11:13, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:47:41 -0400 > > Clarke Sideroad wrote: > > > >> I think kdbus is dead due to the bad press, but I believe there is > >> bus1 c

Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:29:00 +0100 KatolaZ wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 01:43:25AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:31:18 -0400 (EDT) > > Peter Olson wrote: > > > > [cut] > > > > What complication don't you like about GPLv3

Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:26:49 +0200 Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-24 at 09:32 -0500, Jim Murphy wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:20 AM, Steve Litt > > wrote: > > >  > > > Any opinions on which to choose? > > Don't know if this woul

Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
ry single person who ever inserted a line of code. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Which license for UMENU2?

2016-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
opped to think what Redhat would have done had the Linux kernel been licensed Expat. That started me once again strongly considering copyleft. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www

[DNG] UMENU2 beta

2016-08-26 Thread Steve Litt
lease feel free to get back to me with questions and comments, either onlist or offlist, and I'll quickly get back to you. Hope you like it, and don't hesitate to get back to me about it. SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Tro

[DNG] UMENU2 website

2016-08-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Now UMENU2 has more than a beta tarball, it has a website. http://troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/ SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.co

Re: [DNG] Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-09-05 Thread Steve Litt
or whatever, and how that alone is enough reason to use systemd, and yet these same monuments to modern software proclaim their multiseat, terminal-enabling technology is a reason to switch to systemd, even though terminals had their heyday in 1984. Talk about grey

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
out 18 months ago, and it's excellent. So, if you refuse to use systemd, but you're not a huge fan of sysvinit either, then if OpenRC doesn't attract you with specific features, initting with runit or Epoch might be easier for you to achieve. SteveT Steve Litt September 201

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
-dependency servers[5][6] > > OOTB support for Samba and NFS (along with being Devuan > default) will definitely win users. The preceding list looks a heck of a lot like the exact feature list of systemd. What a feather in our cap if that turns out to be true. As far as OpenRC's

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
ing it doesn't uninstall the other init systems installed on the machine. By the way, s6 and s6-rc appear to be undergoing some pretty heavy development. Their documentation pages include much more than they did a year ago. http://skarnet.org/softwar

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
ceding architecture in Manjaro-OpenRC, and it worked. Regardless of your "init system", it's always an asset to control your own process supervisor. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
s. > Nobody supervises pid1, OK? So why would the supervisor need to > be supervised? It is supposed to be rock solid. Note that it can be > barely relaunched by sysvinit in the same way as getty. I can answer that. There are a lot of architectures in which the supervisor isn't p

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
ty of situations. They're more trackable via ps axjf. With supervisors, you don't need to deal with PID files. And, perhaps coolest of all, if you're running processes off a supervisor, you can make your own daemon simply by writing a program that runs in the foreground, and the superv

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:17:52 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > > > > Does OpenRC do the conditional starts? > > > Yes, it does. See "The depend function" here: > http://www.funtoo.org/Package:O

Re: [DNG] Openrc

2016-09-16 Thread Steve Litt
27;m simply pointing out that supervision systems have some major conveniences on both desktops and servers, and that these conveniences widen their appeal beyond helpless admins and 0.0001% of users. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubles

[DNG] sans-dbus: was Mass bug filing: use and misuse of dbus-launch (dbus-x11)

2016-09-18 Thread Steve Litt
any kind of GUI Linux system without dbus, tell us about it. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cg

Re: [DNG] inittab getty tty

2016-09-23 Thread Steve Litt
strace to init with Not at all unlikely if he's initting with something other than sysvinit. The thing called /sbin/init could be the pid1 for runit, s6, sysvinit, epoch, or who knows what else. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting h

Re: [DNG] On talk.do and Web forums

2016-09-28 Thread Steve Litt
ok around and watch the hilarious > Ethereum fork story that unfolded this summer. In fact, we can just > *propose ways*, and some people will understand and participate, and > some will prefer keeping using what's there *and there is no problem > at all with that*. We live in a com

[DNG] A succinct description of why I avoid systemd

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
licably cause a fuse to blow in the kitchen." BANG! I understand Redhat's and Poetterpuff's motivation, but why is this concept so hard for Debianistas and Linux people in general to understand? SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
SYSLINUX could be used to boot MBR systems with simple-mount root partitions, followed by RAID/ENCRIPTION/LVM on various mounted filesystems. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___

Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 09:40:45 +0100 Dave Turner wrote: > My nice new uefi laptop has grub2 and runs debian sid. How new? Is it Win10 certified? How difficult was it to turn off secure boot? SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting h

Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
phy can both simultaneously be happy. List of such bootloaders, please? SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne

Re: [DNG] What does Devuan expect from a boot-loader?

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
tously entangled abomination. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Firefox nightly [now] requires Pulse Audio

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
le for a "downstream" to keep alsa compatibility, I think Devuan's people would need to do it. And of course there's Palemoon. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___

Re: [DNG] Firefox nightly [now] requires Pulse Audio

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:11:19 +0200 Jaromil wrote: > BTW I use pulse-audio in Devuan (needed for Skype) without any > problems (and without systemd) You can use apulse instead. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshootin

Re: [DNG] A succinct description of why I avoid systemd

2016-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2 Oct 2016 11:19:42 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2016 02 Oct 11:14 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In the following essay, search for the first occurrance of the word > > "fragility". Then read the paragraph containing it

Re: [DNG] Refracta on Distrowatch

2016-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
ive to get to, the poorly sighted person will not have the visual acuity to navigate the standard theme enough to make their computer legible. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Plop bootloader: was USB bootable ISO for i386

2016-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
tloader so it can be restored when an upgrade blows it away? Can Plop be used with a modern UEFI-only computer? (One can hope)? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 __

Re: [DNG] Systemdconf

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
making, in order to fix problems baked in by five generations of yearlings. Think of the user interface possibilities when you throw away all knowledge and make something brand new. Don't trust anyone over thirty! SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: T

Re: [DNG] Refracta on Distrowatch

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
factory direct, untweaked clearlooks? That might be a good place to start. And I'll need your help on this, because I don't know which files and variables change which properties. I'll just ask you on #debianfork. Thanks, SteveT Steve Lit

Re: [DNG] Systemdconf

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
7;t know what this cultural reference was about. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Fixed or Rolling release?

2016-10-27 Thread Steve Litt
ed release. Void's rolling release has been good to me so far, but if it ever starts getting twitchy like Manjaro (or perhaps moreso like the *too's), it's good to know there's still a fixed release sans-systemd. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 featured bo

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