Ruben Safir writes:
> Bullshit
>
> You should leave and Richard should stop beiong harrassed by bigots like
> you
>
> The truth is, you don't get a say in this. GNU is not a democracy,
Ruben (and everyone else), can you please take a kinder tone when
discussing on GNU lists, even if you
Everyone,
This is off-topic for gnu-system-discuss. gnu-system-discuss is for technical
topics related to the GNU System. Please take the discussion elsewhere.
Furthermore, if the discussion is to continue to include personal attacks
against *any* member of GNU, then it should not be held on
On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 06:18 +0500, Anonymous wrote:
> Your use of the word "apply" here is equivocal (a logical fallacy).
On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 19:06 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> We've seen heavy use of logical fallacy from you (false
> analogy, position statements with no attempt at supporting
On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 22:53 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> It's in fact that separate issue that has been under discussion here.
> To date, there has been no claim or discussion over whether the use of
> the GNU Radio application is restricted. That's not a point of
> contention. GNU Radio
suggestions? Or am I talking nonsense?
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by the marketing
techniques that tried to sell me toys and video games in the 80s.
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, in the long-term let's be
optimistic; we know that there are people at least working on it.
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/libraries are swapped out in favor of other (free) alternatives,
is it still GNU? I would still argue yes, as long as it's free and
Unixoid, but that's philosophical and arguing it will not get us very
far, so please let's just discuss that over a beer sometime as well.
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Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net writes:
Brandon Invergo bran...@invergo.net wrote ..
This goes back to my point that the problem with calling something
The GNU System is that it implies that there is a single,
specific set of software that defines the system. The kernel issue
then comes
putting them into words).
In any case, I'll bow out now to think more about what everyone has said
and to come to some conclusions for myself.
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(as in, not officially GNU software) free
software packages that help comprise the GNU system (I think I said as
much in another part).
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is clear.
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changes to GSRC to reinforce this distinction
(i.e. removing 3rd-party dependencies).
I think that just about sums it up but I welcome other comments. :)
Cheers,
Brandon
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I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
(dotfiles) so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
need into their proper places.
That's exactly my use case too:
Is Stow still useful, or should we think of Guix as a replacement for it?
I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
(dotfiles) so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
need into their proper
I am pleased to announce GNU Guix, an on-going project to build a
functional package manager and associated free software distribution of
the GNU system.
Congrats on the release! I'm looking forward to running a Guix-based
system soon :)
The ROADMAP file sketches the current plan. GNU
With regards to the GUI, I did something of partly overlapping scope
in the past with the sourceinstall project;
http://www.gnu.org/software/sourceinstall/
There does seem to be a lot of overlap in functionality there, though
the backend looks like it functions quite differently. How does
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 15:58 +0200, Claudio Fontana wrote:
The goal of sourceinstall is to be able to install arbitrary source
packages from source code, with no repository in mind, and is not
meant to be bound to a particular OS.
For my use case, I keep my OS packages in prefix /usr, while I
Daniel Robbins is the original project founder of Gentoo (and, later,
Funtoo) and the author of its Portage (BSD Ports-like) package
management system.
In regards to that, though, GNU already has GSRC, which is based on GAR
(another Ports-like system) and puts to use other GNU software such as
could be of use, though. I'm looking forward to seeing them discussed
since they've until now just been floating around unchallenged in my
head (where everything is sunny and all ideas are inherently extremely
great ideas).
Regards,
Brandon Invergo
On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 10:43 -0700, Jason Self wrote:
It seems to me that a GNU distribution should include and give preference to
GNU software whenever possible. That would include Evolution for example,
which
is part of GNOME, which is part of GNU and also Icecat, which is another GNU
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