Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-28 Thread Paige Thompson
On 11/28/14 01:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I think im just going to go to sleep. I really don't care if they drop support for it I'll just make my own ebuild / systemd emulation for whatever I need in spite of it,

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 28 Nov 2014 19:03:45 Paige Thompson wrote: On 11/28/14 01:13, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I think im just going to go to sleep. I really don't care if they drop support for it I'll just make my own ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/28/2014 02:03 PM, Paige Thompson wrote: Sorry I wish Thunderbird would start my cursor at the bottom of the e-mail like its supposed to and I forget sometimes. Edit - Account Settings - Composition and Addressing Check the thing to quote replies, and select start my reply below...

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. Many of them may

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future Doesn't matter

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/23/2014 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, I'll wager it likely won't be implemented in such a way as to be perceived by its user base as being shoved down their throats. Clarification -

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:05:16 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:25:22 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Stuermer
Am 27.11.2014 um 12:00 schrieb Tom H: I wouldn't bet to much on that. One of the most vocal anti-systemd Debian users tried either Gento or Funtoo and reported that installation and maintenance were difficult. Binary distros do make things rather easier, especially if you start to play with

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Stuermer
Am 27.11.2014 um 15:21 schrieb Tom H: Lennart made some design choices that I wish that he hadn't made but I'm not losing any sleep over this; and I don't understand why anyone else should. Three frequently brought up issues: 1. Lennart Poettering does not exactly have a track record of

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Marc Stuermer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 27.11.2014 um 12:00 schrieb Tom H: I wouldn't bet to much on that. One of the most vocal anti-systemd Debian users tried either Gento or Funtoo and reported that installation and maintenance were difficult. Binary

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 27.11.2014 um 16:22 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: And Sabayon uses systemd, of course. Holy moly... never noticed that this happened.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 27.11.2014 um 16:22 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: And Sabayon uses systemd, of course. Holy moly... never noticed that this happened. Sabayon started rolling systemd in April 15, 2013[1]. By Sabayon 14.01, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Paige Thompson
so we pretty much established that dropping openrc isn't in the plans for gentoo right? Probably gonna be an option like bootloaders right? On 11/27/14 21:46, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 27.11.2014 um 16:22 schrieb

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Paige Thompson
I think im just going to go to sleep. I really don't care if they drop support for it I'll just make my own ebuild / systemd emulation for whatever I need in spite of it, fork it and call it you can have it when you pry it from my cold dead hands linux. good night -Paige On 11/27/14 22:56,

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I think im just going to go to sleep. I really don't care if they drop support for it I'll just make my own ebuild / systemd emulation for whatever I need in spite of it, fork it and call it you can have it when you

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:45:31 +0100 Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 25.11.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Gevisz: It usually took me from 10 to 20 minutes to download my daily updates in Ubuntu. For big packages - about 40 minutes or even more. That's the time saving aspect lol

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 25/11/14 23:35, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The point was that it could be changed. […] […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty enough to drive

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread thegeezer
On 24/11/14 19:13, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:06:23 +, thegeezer wrote: * stable releases with a more or less stable and predictable release cycle, debatable - i would suggest better tested than stable otherwise there would be no need for debian bugzilla The vagaries of English strike again! When Debian

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:39:17AM +0200, Gevisz wrote Moreover, if I had to maintain computers for *other* users, I would not mind to upgrade their binary distributions every 2 or, better, every 5 years even if *their* working environment would every time change from Gnome2 to Unity and

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-26 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 26.11.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Walter Dnes: I've been running ICEWM for over 4 years, and blackbox for a few years before that. What desktop interface change? :) Switching to ratpoison or i3wm, of course. :

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:53:14 +0200, Gevisz wrote: Wouldn't it have been easier to use the simple configuration option to move the button back to where you expected it? Far less effort than switching distros. No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible in Unity at

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/11/2014 09:15, Gevisz wrote: I even can agree with them that a new place of that button was logical, ergonomic and saved screen space. Only now, I have realized that, logically, it was possible to rearrange all the elements of Unity in such a way that it was logical, ergonomic, saved

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 25 November 2014 11:45:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/11/2014 09:15, Gevisz wrote: I even can agree with them that a new place of that button was logical, ergonomic and saved screen space. Only now, I have realized that, logically, it was possible to rearrange all the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:45:50 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/2014 09:15, Gevisz wrote: I even can agree with them that a new place of that button was logical, ergonomic and saved screen space. Only now, I have realized that, logically, it was possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:41:10 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:53:14 +0200, Gevisz wrote: Wouldn't it have been easier to use the simple configuration option to move the button back to where you expected it? Far less effort than switching distros.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:09:08 +0200, Gevisz wrote: It was possible, Google has hits on this dated from shortly after the time Unity was released. Please, give me the link. I will check if it is correct on my old Ubuntu 12.04 partition (yes, I still have it) and report the result here.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:13:53 +0100 Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:37:48 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:09:08 +0200, Gevisz wrote: It was possible, Google has hits on this dated from shortly after the time Unity was released. Please, give me the link. I will check if it is correct on my

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Maxim Wexler
No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window frame button and have argued that it is more ergonomic. There was not any possibility to

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:37:48 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:09:08 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I do recall that one way of doing it is with UbuntuTweak. Unity-tweak-tool cant move window buttons to the right in 14.04 as of September 3, 2014:

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:21:06 -0700 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: No. It is not possible in Unity or, at least, it was not possible in Unity at the time when Ubuntu 12.04 was released. They really *forced* their users to accept the new place of the closing window frame

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:55:07 +0200, Gevisz wrote: Please, give me the link. I will check if it is correct on my old Ubuntu 12.04 partition (yes, I still have it) and report the result here. Why not Google it yourself? Because it is very hard to google a link if it does not exist.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 25/11/2014 19:03, Gevisz wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:45:50 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/2014 09:15, Gevisz wrote: I even can agree with them that a new place of that button was logical, ergonomic and saved screen space. Only now, I have realized that,

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:56:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/2014 19:03, Gevisz wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:45:50 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/11/2014 09:15, Gevisz wrote: I even can agree with them that a new place of that

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:49:53 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 19:55:07 +0200, Gevisz wrote: Please, give me the link. I will check if it is correct on my old Ubuntu 12.04 partition (yes, I still have it) and report the result here. Why not

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:24:34 +0200, Gevisz wrote: Can you, please, help me? :) I did, I told you about UbuntuTweak, but here's a link http://bit.ly/1rpmTbK Yes, but this simply does not work. OK, so it doesn't work. The point was that it could be changed. I neither remember nor

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The point was that it could be changed. […] […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty enough to drive people away. The point was that when you feel

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:35:18 +0100, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: The point was that it could be changed. […] […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. No, the point was that sometimes even a small annoyance is plenty enough to drive people away. Well, if you put it like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:35:18 +0100 Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 November 2014 at 23:42, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The point was that it could be changed. […] […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. No, the point was that sometimes even a small

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:56:58 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 00:35:18 +0100, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: The point was that it could be changed. […] […] It's about as on-topic and relevant as WinXP. No, the point was that sometimes even a small

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-25 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 25.11.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Gevisz: It usually took me from 10 to 20 minutes to download my daily updates in Ubuntu. For big packages - about 40 minutes or even more. That's the time saving aspect lol :) Not lol, it is like I told you. Binary distributions are a big, big time saver

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
The reason this question is so hard to answer is because it is not a technical question, it is a moral and ethical one. The links presented start to approach the issue being discussed in this light but do not entirely accept the right question. I suspect this is because it seems rather absurd. We

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Sid S
Regardless, it would probably be useful to contact the people from the Debian project who were interested in forking it. It's likely Gentoo would end up using a fair amount of their work at some point. On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Sid S r03...@gmail.com wrote: The reason this question is so

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb: Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Gevisz
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:54:26 +0100 Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb: Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 24 November 2014 at 18:54, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: I don't think so, that many people are going to switch to Gentoo just because of Systemd, because of the differences between Gentoo and e.g. Debian. I did. From Debian. Not because I hate systemd (NOW I'm in the anti

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) So, I see no reason that those that hate

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:25:22 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) Wouldn't it have been easier to use

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Gevisz
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:05:16 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:25:22 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-24 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 06:53:14 +0200 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:05:16 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:25:22 +0200, Gevisz wrote: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/21/2014 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make sure that this remains to be true, help them. This is really an incorrect (and even

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/21/2014 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 23 Nov 2014 12:07:08 -0600 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: [...] To answer the OPs question correctly... Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and systemd is the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 2:02 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: I get the distinct feeling that you two should probably read the LWN article again. No need... This: In the end, it comes down to this: it just is not that important. It is just a system initialization utility. simply proves that the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future Doesn't matter because: a) it won't be systemd (with all of its warts) b) it won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Also, I'll wager it likely won't be implemented in such a way as to be perceived by its user base as being shoved down their throats. Clarification - this reference was actually to the way Debian is handling it, not Gentoo - I

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future Doesn't matter

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 11/23/2014 3:34 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 11/23/2014 1:07 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar (along the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works great with it. My (personal) sense is that in the medium-term we may end up moving

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/21/14 07:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works great with it. My (personal) sense is that

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Webb
141121 Rich Freeman wrote: My personal sense is that in the medium-term we may end up moving to not having any default at all, just as with bootloaders, kernels, syslog, crontab, mail etc. That is pretty-much the Gentoo way everywhere else when there are options. As you already pointed out,

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Paige Thompson
On 11/21/14 07:31, Marc Stürmer wrote: Am 21.11.2014 um 08:17 schrieb Paige Thompson: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:39 PM, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Regardless, the smaller, cheaper embedded linux crowd is very unlikely to ever embrace systemd. Why? Glad you asks. Thousands of reasons, but, here are a few: It is very common in embedded (anything) to run multiple and often

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Paige Thompson
On 11/21/14 07:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I highly recommend the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Paige Thompson
On 11/21/14 17:39, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: On 11/21/14 07:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Paige Thompson
On 11/21/14 18:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:39 PM, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Regardless, the smaller, cheaper embedded linux crowd is very unlikely to ever embrace systemd. Why? Glad you asks. Thousands of reasons, but, here are a few: It is very common in

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 21 Nov 2014 01:32:16 -0600 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com: [...] I highly recommend the article John Corbet wrote for LWN a week ago: http://lwn.net/Articles/619992/ [...] Thanks for the link, it was a good read. FWIW, I found this linked in one of the comments:

[gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Paige Thompson
I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will Gentoo have any plans of forcing its users to move to systemd or will I always

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@yourstruly.sx wrote: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I highly recommend the article John Corbet wrote for LWN a week ago:

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-20 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 21.11.2014 um 08:17 schrieb Paige Thompson: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will Gentoo have any plans of forcing