Steve Litt [08/07/2022 15.57]:
What scares me is if he starts putting Microsoft-centric stuff in
systemd, Linux will need to either migrate away from systemd
Wouldn't that be what we all want?
or be
subsumed by microsoft.
Won't happen.
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Karl Hammar [19/01/2022 18.19]:
What is that "if" about, ohh, it is an acronym...
Unfortunately it looks like this insurance company's logotype:
https://www.if.se/
so, I'd say we cannot use it (it really make me wounder why the
authorities allows thoose names).
If is owned by the Finnish
Steve Litt [22/12/2021 12.15]:
The easy suggestion is you can install xfce to get its apps, including
the pretty nice xfce4-terminal
^^^
and extremely slow
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Radisson via Dng [17/12/2021 21.04]:
Another symptom: when the cursor is moved to or away from the
scroll bar, the grey scrollbar is broken into a vertical set of
grey and light grey lines for about a second. When I drag the
scrollbar to scroll text, text and images are broken up by
horizontal
Steve Litt [23/11/2021 21.48]:
The majority of files in /home/yourname are useless. /home/yourname is
a mishmash of stuff you created, settings you use, and useless crap
like cache. It's huge and ugly. For that reason I create other top
william moss via Dng [05/11/2021 22.49]:
BSD and system V (AT/Bell Labs System Five) switched more than a
decade ago.
Certainly not FreeBSD:
$ uname -or
FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE
$ ls /bin | wc -l
44
$ ls /usr/bin | wc -l
488
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Steve Litt [28/07/2021 21.47]:
Don't forget Southern California Coastal English:
- Ate it
- Ate concrete
- Wiped out
- Got Maytagged
- Faceplant
- Roadrash
- Stoked
- Gnarly (antideluvian from 80's)
And then the Jamaicans, and the English-speaking Indians, the Aussies,
the Kiwis...
Linux O'Beardly via Dng [15.07.2021 19:57]:
> Has anyone attempted and/or had success at creating a WSL distribution
> from a Devuan docker image? I started a new gig and am stuck with a
> Windows laptop, but they will allow us to run WSL. Any info would be
> greatly appreciated.
Not from a
goli...@devuan.org [11.05.2021 20:07]:
> Please let this useless thread die and get back to discussions about
> free software and making Devuan the best alternative without systemd
> lock-in. Thanks.
You beat me to it.
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Steve Litt [26.03.2021 20:46]:
> Before you sign anything or do anything, ask yourself if this is of top
> importance to you. Are you willing to risk your career, your position
> in your community, perhaps the positions of your family, to defend
> Richard Stallman? Unless the answer is an
aitor [05.03.2021 15:22]:
> On the other hand, Steve, I would include Yoko Ono's long plays to your
> list of punishments for those people in the hell forced to use systemd,
> in addition to the normal
>
> fire and brimstone. Yoko Ono for eternity.
So you WANT me to use Substance D (systemd),
Rick Moen [25.12.2020 05:47]:
> Here, my gift to thee and thee, for the Jul holiday (and let us remember
> Poul and his wife Karen fondly):
He was one of the great SF writers, sorely missed.
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Rick Moen [22.09.2020 20:11]:
>> I worry about a different kind of portability. If I ever have to switch
>> to BSD (and this remains a possibility, unfortunately), /bin/* shebangs
>> will not work except for /bin/sh, and /bin/sh is always ash. That is
>> because on BSD everything not in the core
Curtis Maurand via Dng [24.08.2020 16:30]:
> in plan9 everything is an object.
Not at all. Everything is a file, not an object, whatever that is.
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Steve Litt [08.08.2020 09:07]:
> Is this enough neoliberal b*shit for you guys?
More than enough. Can you guys move this discussion to another list?
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Haines Brown [07.08.2020 18:19]:
> Yes, for sure. If you are right about the speed difference between
> NTFS and ext4, then is there another FS that can be accessed by a
> Windows machine that is not much slower than ext4?
fat32. Or if you run a recent kernel on your Linux machine (Devuan 5.4
Patrick Erdmann [13.06.2020 12:24]:
> My test case is compiling ArcticFox, thus something in the realm of
> Firefox: lots of compiler activity, make, disk access, make and python.
> But, of course, predominant factor is compilation and linking.
>
> With ascii, I was consistently (= not just one
al3xu5 / dotcommon [25/02/2020 16.29]:
> I am using Devuan (2.1) + MATE DE since 08/2016...
> Now I wish to change DE but I am in doubt: XFCE or LXDE or LXQt???
Do you drink beer or wine, Pepsi or Coke? Same thing.
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Den 08.01.2020 19:16, skrev Dimitris via Dng:
On 1/8/20 8:07 PM, Rowland penny via Dng wrote:
if you are referring to the mythical bird that rises from the ashes
"φοίνιξ" in ancient greek.
any latin-based name, is just a derivative. :D
I was going to say the same, but it bears more weight
Mike Bird [01.04.2019 20:43]:
> Authorised access does not make wrongdoing lawful. The other Devuan
> admins urgently need to remove you, consult a lawyer or the police,
> replace all authorisation tokens and keys, and rebuild from trusted
> sources.
>
> Or they could let Devuan revert to a toy
KatolaZ [12/03/2019 22.54]:
> I am not saying these are not valid complaints, quite the opposite. I
> am just saying that I accepted years ago that the way I use Linux is
> not the same other users use it, and I have to keep this in mind if I
> want to contribute to Devuan.
Well said. Having
Rowland Penny via Dng [05/02/2019 21.59]:
>> I think you meant to write:
>>
>> if [ ! -d /var/run/barman ]; then mkdir -p /var/run/barman; fi
>>
>
> even better:
>
> [[ -d /var/run/barman ]] || mkdir -p /var/run/barman
Or even simpler:
mkdir -p /var/run/barman
If the directory or any of
Dr. Nikolaus Klepp [03.02.2019 00:31]:
> Ok. I found another way: install "libdvd-pkg", this downloads and builds
> libdvdcss2. And I now I can confirm that dmo repository breaks gimp. I'm just
> now cleaning my system from all dmo packages.
Yes, I can confirm that Gimp works when I remove all
KatolaZ [02.02.2019 20:27]:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 06:20:50PM +0100, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
>> I have tried to upgrade two of my machines from ASCII to Beowulf. It
>> needed some fiddling with "apt --fix-broken install", trying the
>> dist-upgrade a couple
Harald Arnesen [02.02.2019 18:20]:
> I have tried to upgrade two of my machines from ASCII to Beowulf. It
> needed some fiddling with "apt --fix-broken install", trying the
> dist-upgrade a couple of times and removing a couple of things. But it
> boots and works ok now.
>
> With the exeption of
I have tried to upgrade two of my machines from ASCII to Beowulf. It
needed some fiddling with "apt --fix-broken install", trying the
dist-upgrade a couple of times and removing a couple of things. But it
boots and works ok now.
With the exeption of GIMP. That one gives the following error:
$
goli...@dyne.org [30/01/2019 18.04]:
> Yeah, it's a rat's nest for sure but I've managed to fake it so far. Now
> deep into theming beowulf which requires way too many late, late nights
Care to explain what this is? The Ascii theme is - ok - so what's to
change for Beowulf?
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