Re: [Dng] nameservers

2015-03-30 Thread Nextime
On March 30, 2015 9:42:33 AM WEST, KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: --Snip-- a selection of packages compiled for a certain platform who talk to each other well, and among which a user can select those that better suit their needs. Fullstop. --snip-- I would like to scream those words to

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 29/03/2015 11:15, marc a écrit : No need to mix doubleforking and PID tracking on your program. That should be the duty of whatever daemonizes and manages your program. You know, like Daemontools or s6. So there is a very good reason for a deamon to handle its own backgrounding: The

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 30/03/2015 13:53, John Morris a écrit : Both the FSF and Debian claim to be the most 'Free.' This is not my understanding. Debian does not claim to be more free than GNU. They just admit the reality that some non-free

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Chris Kalin
with compatibility across versions. Forking the kernel gives us control over these issues, gives us control over almost all key parts of the stack. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community Our proximity to April 1 makes me wonder, but still... While there are several quotes

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Vlad
fork of the Linux kernel. There are problems, problems in collaboration, problems with compatibility across versions. Forking the kernel gives us control over these issues, gives us control over almost all key parts of the stack. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
On Mon 30 March 2015 14:30:44 Didier Kryn wrote: Le 30/03/2015 13:49, John Morris a écrit : Simple. Systemd is only the tip of the spear in what appears planned as a total reinvention of the OS. They aren't done yet. What happens when the next major component of that plan appears

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 30/03/2015 15:10, Adam Borowski a écrit : On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 30/03/2015 13:53, John Morris a écrit : Both the FSF and Debian claim to be the most 'Free.' This is not my understanding. Debian does not claim to be more free than GNU. They

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 02:07:41PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: Le 30/03/2015 13:53, John Morris a écrit : Both the FSF and Debian claim to be the most 'Free.' This is not my understanding. Debian does not claim to be more free than GNU. They just admit the reality that some non-free

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread Vlad
I use F-Droid with cyanogen and I am quite happy, the number and quality of apps is steadily increasing too. On Mar 30, 2015 2:49 PM, John Morris jmor...@beau.org wrote: On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:33 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: BTW, I, like many others, find convenient to use e.g. Skype, and

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Vlad
fork of the Linux kernel. There are problems, problems in collaboration, problems with compatibility across versions. Forking the kernel gives us control over these issues, gives us control over almost all key parts of the stack. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread etech3
Nate Did you read the devs name? According to Ivan Gotyaovich link to distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community On 03/30/2015 07:25 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: Is this really happening? Now it appears as though the systemd developers have found a solution

Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?

2015-03-30 Thread John Morris
On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 12:33 +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: BTW, I, like many others, find convenient to use e.g. Skype, and I would prefer to run it inside a container. Over there, Linux installers are Shareware. All of them. I'm not a priest of St. Ignucius but the idea of the

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Martijn Dekkers
over almost all key parts of the stack. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community Our proximity to April 1 makes me wonder, but still... While there are several quotes in the article from one Ivan Gotyaovich, I don't see any links to said quotes which leaves me a bit

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:44:29 +0200 Didier Kryn k...@in2p3.fr wrote: Le 29/03/2015 11:15, marc a écrit : No need to mix doubleforking and PID tracking on your program. That should be the duty of whatever daemonizes and manages your program. You know, like Daemontools or s6. So there is

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Nimal Ratnayake
On 03/30/2015 04:55 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: repository. According to Ivan Gotyaovich, one of the developers working on systemd, the project intends to maintain its own fork of A search on systemd/systemd on Github indicated that there are no contributions to systemd by an Ivan Gotyaovich.

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
these issues, gives us control over almost all key parts of the stack. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150330#community Our proximity to April 1 makes me wonder, but still... While there are several quotes in the article from one Ivan Gotyaovich, I don't see any links to said quotes

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread KatolaZ
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] ROFLMAO, Here's the problem, Nate. With any other software vendor, we'd instantly and doubtlessly assume it an April Fools Joke. But this is systemd we're talking about, and the first time I heard that it had a 2 way link

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Anto
On 30/03/15 15:15, Chris Kalin wrote: I hope it's absolutely true. Do all the ripping out and rebuilding in their own tree, and if Linus et al don't want to merge the changes back into mainline, distro users can use a sane kernel. Keep your peanut butter out of my chocolate, as it were.

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread devuan . kn
Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Steve Litt - sl...@troubleshooters.com devuan.kn.3c178e07a2.slitt#troubleshooters@ob.0sg.net wrote: Hi Didier, If your post says what I think it says, you're saying that modern init systems should always start services concurrently, not

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 30 Mar 06:37 -0500, etech3 wrote: Nate Did you read the devs name? According to Ivan Gotyaovich Umm, yes, which is partly the reason why I mention my skepticism. Remember, all good humor has a kernel of truth. - Nate -- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
The problem there is that a consecutive boot system needs to probe for hardware and give that hardware time to show up, blocking the boot process in the meantime. The only hardware detection during boot that *needs* to block is mounting the root device. Boot cannot proceed without that. To

Re: [Dng] This has GOT to be an April Fools joke

2015-03-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2015 30 Mar 12:05 -0500, KatolaZ wrote: Anyway, this little (disgusting) joke is revealing that some users that are currently tolerating the systemd-nonsense would be quite upset if the systemd-nonsense guys would decide to take the Linux kernel aboard (something that I personally think

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
If you need to generically support a wide range of setups and include the fun stuff listed above into the mix, then your init system will need to do a lot more than what is necessary to bring up one individual system. Debian did run all of the above during its boot sequence (if the package

Re: [Dng] Why daemontools is so cool

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
Okay, one technical correction (on myself): What are you talking about? root@t510:/home/jude# runlevel N 2 root@t510:/home/jude# fgrep -r sleep /etc/rc2.d /etc/rcS.d root@t510:/home/jude# You do *not* need timeouts to boot the system sequentially. I should have typed fgrep -r sleep

Re: [Dng] Any plans to provide xinit without the systemd hacks?

2015-03-30 Thread Jude Nelson
Hey Isaac, So, I'm looking at startx here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/tree/startx.cpp Where's the offending block of code? Is it lines 191-200? Looking at the commit history ( http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit/log/), it doesn't look like startx sees many changes these