Re: Unique kernel with my own backup of all Debian repositories

Dear Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside, I would appreciate it if you would stay out of conversations which you do not understand. Your rude response was not well-received. Are you suggesting there are no government employees in the open source community? Such an assertion is naive at best.

The green light I'm requesting is to keep my ip addresses from being blocked as I scrape the Debian repositories. Please work on your reading comprehension skills. I am requesting permission from the community as a whole, which is why I am using a mailing list which addresses the developers of said community.

Existing servers should be fine. However, I invite you to create a new server on Digital Ocean, for example, using Ubuntu 18.04. Unless they are just picking on me in particular, you will find some changes in protocol, such as the inability to upload a private key within a bash shell without first making configurations in a web browser. This is a new security hole, in case you were not aware.

Again, work on your reading comprehension skills. I said I am developing a unique kernel, based on Debian Linux... I said nothing about writing an entire Linux kernel from scratch... Furthermore, I never said anything about copying code... Plus, I said credit would be given where it was due, if I even ever decided to distribute it.

It is really a simple task to modify and personalize a kernel. Perhaps you should try before you criticize someone you have never met before. Additionally, you have zero knowledge of my relationship with any government, so do not assume you know anything about me, besides what I just told you, which you clearly are not a skilled enough reader to comprehend.

Finally, there was only one question mark in the entire email. Let me paraphrase, because your reading comprehension skills are lacking: why is my ip address getting blocked repeatedly as I scrape open source, and may I have permission to scrape appropriately without being blocked? I'm asking permission from the community as a whole, which is why I am asking the developer mailing list as a whole. If you do not know the answer to my question, what was the purpose of your ridiculous retorts?

On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 9:52 AM Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> wrote:

Hi,

On 2021-06-12 12:21 p.m., John E Petersen wrote:
> Hey folks, I’m developing a unique kernel based on Debian Linux, and
> I’ve been scraping the website for repositories. After a few thousand,
> the servers start to block my ip.
>
> I’m just trying to keep the crazy government out of Linux, because they
> keep monkeying with repositories on Ubuntu, not to mention
> snap/snapd/brltty/systemd…

Did you smoke something that wasn't meant to end up in your lungs ? Have
you ingested some mushrooms ?

What you write here is a total screw-up non-sense !

1st : There's no "government" in Linux. It's a community driven project,
like Debian.

2nd : You talk about Ubuntu repository, sorry, beep, bong, whatever,
wake-up call, this is Debian, no Ubuntu repository here.

3rd : What's the link between Snap/SnapD/Brltyy and SystemD ?

Plus, they’ve totally screwed up Digital
> Ocean and more or less OVH, so I need a unique kernel (and physical
> servers) to host my wholesome websites. Not to rant, but it has really
> gotten ridiculous.

And now, you put on some specific entities to have screwed Digital Ocean
and OVH (two different company). Sorry dude ! I'm running many OVH rack
and none of them have any problem running Debian Buster or Bullseye,
straight out of the box.

>
> I’m not doing anything malicious, and the repositories seem to have
> extremely flexible licensing, so what’s the problem? If I ever wind up
> distributing such a kernel which allows access to my copies of the
> repositories, I would give credit where it’s due, of course.
>

So you woke up and decided on your own, you're gonna write a brand new
kernel, fully compatible with the Linux kernel ? All by yourself ?

Watch what you are doing, because it would be a bad thing to copy the
code of others while doing so !

> If you guys would give me the green light, I’d appreciate it. I’m not
> saying I would ever distribute such a thing, but I’m not ruling out the
> possibility either. I’m not looking to mirror, just to be clear.
>

What "green light" are you expecting here ? Everyone talk for their own
self. I think you are missing a really important part here...

There's no "central" entity that will give you a "go a head" on the name
of others. It's not like working for IBM where you employer hold the
copyright of your works.
> Salud de Mexico,
> John (Tarbal)

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