On 2/25/2015 at 8:36 AM, "Rick Moen" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Yes, Mark, that was a little uncool. Entirely new threads are best >_not_ started as replies to existing ones. It's better for a new >thread
Again, HUGE apologies for the faux pas. I miss having my class account on a mainframe where I could see just what's going on header-wise.. pine, elm or such. This web-based stuff is poopy. >to systemd, and prevent its future return, like this: > ># apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils ># apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd ># echo -e 'Package: systemd\nPin: origin ""\nPin-Priority: -1' > >/etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd > >I'm actually looking forward to testing OpenRC[2] on this test >system, a >well-made event-driven init utterly without the scope-creep >drawbacks >that created notorious flamewars several years ago, and that some >LUGs >are only belatedly noticing. > >Other distros such as Fedora and OpenSUSE that no longer provide >any >other properly packaged inits will be a problem, but there are >plenty of >alternative distro choices. > Great points-- you certainly know your stuff & it's great to have your expertise grace this Davis list! >I respect Alison Chaiken immensely, and was of course pleased to >invite >her to give this talk at SVLUG, and would not have dreamed of >speaking >up to challenge any part of it, given that I was the meeting host. >Listen carefully for the numerous highly doubtful points, like the >bit >where she does a comparison based on number of lines of code of a >binary. > > Should prove interesting indeed-- ;but though I'll likely remain all fuddy-duddy & Luddite, my subperfect tech chops & abysmal public speaking skills will preclude my debating her. But perhaps some Slackware champion(s) et al shall emerge to put together a dissenting presentation. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
