Re: RMS: users request you perhaps program HURD: they fear the path the linux kernel is going.

2019-11-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
nipponm...@firemail.cc writes: > The D compiler is dmd rather than dc? > > You could call dmd gdmd (gnu dmd) or g-dmd. This ship has sailed. You are a few years late. > shepard > systemd > > they get confused. Usually one reads the first and last letter of a > word and not the middle. Same

Re: (Really) Free Software future

2019-10-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Alfred M. Szmidt writes: >> I agree that systemd has quality/complexity issues, but it is not >> vendor lock-in. It is free software so you can fork it – and if your >> fork would be better, distributions would use it and Red Hat would >> stay alone with their original systemd.

Re: systemd replacement or standardization

2019-10-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
marinus.savorit...@tuta.io writes: > So do we endorse systemd and stop developing GNU Shepherd, or > reevaluate if GNOME fits with the rest of the GNU system? At least from a Guix point of view we will not stop developing GNU Shepherd because it allows us to easily use features from Guix (e.g.

Reminder to remain civil

2019-10-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
ng0 writes [something] Please keep the language here civil. We don’t need more anger on our lists. If you feel frustrated, please take some time off email and (for example) enjoy the local manifestation of autumn in your physical environment. It is of no use to escalate by venting here.

Re: FSF has a duty to flag GNU Radio for violations (was: s/w that requires middleman..)

2017-03-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jean Louis writes: > […] Or simply press a button and come out of that kind of > robotical thinking. Please do not use this kind of language here. Try to make your point without personal attacks. ~~ Ricardo

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.12.0 released

2016-12-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
4 Lukas Gradl 21 Manolis Ragkousis 114 Marius Bakke 128 Mark H Weaver 7 Mathieu Lirzin 2 Maxim Cournoyer 2 Mike Gerwitz 1 Muriithi Frederick Muriuki 12 Nicolas Goaziou 2 Paul Garlick 3 Petter 2 Raoul Bonnal 9 Rene Saavedra

Re: What to call Parabola

2015-01-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
hellekin writes: *** Indeed, the logo at gnu.org/s/guix states Guix, the GNU System and the page mentions GSD, both terms were argued against by rms if I can read correctly and my memory spans more than a week. The logo is a remnant from a time before the discussions. The line The GNU System

Re: What to call Guix

2015-01-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Richard Stallman writes: I would like to suggest the name “GNU Software Distribution”, That has two problems: * It doesn't say that this is a distribution of the GNU _system_. * It implies this is the one and only software distribution that is connected with GNU. GSD could also mean