Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:53 -0700
Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700
> > Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>> On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> What's the hurry, Squeeze is good until 2016, we have plenty of
> >>>> time to test other init-systems.
> >>>
> >>> You use KDE. Where you there when KDE3 became KDE4 and broke our
> >>> hearts? What a flame fest that was. Yet, you use it now? Ah! Time
> >>> must have finally smoothed the rough edges. Yet, KDE4 happened no
> >>> matter what any of us had to say, and I was royally jerked about
> >>> it. Gnome went through the very same cycle. So did Ubuntu with all
> >>> of the lens (IMHO) junk. Every one of those projects were driven
> >>> top-down. We users just got pulled along.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes! I was at the KDE4 release at Google what fun..I also helped
> >> with Trinity, Linux is about diversity and Debian has always been
> >> the leader.
> >
> > Whoa guys, slow down on the generalizations. Don't assume everyone
> > uses KDE4. Two years ago I kicked KDE, in its entirety, libraries
> > and all, off all my computers. It's an entangled monolith and a
> > danger to computing. The time might come when I need to do the same
> > with Gnome. Don't assume that users just bend over and take this
> > entangled junk.
>
>
> Debian KDE4 has been manageable, nothing but a bunch of meta-packages
> remove what you don't need and then use 'aptitude keep-all' to keep
> the app's and then 'upgrade-system' to cleanup the crud. Some of the
> best minds use KDE. ;)
LOL, in that case, consider me one of the worst minds. With my
special set of hotkeys, I've tweaked my Openbox to break the sound
barrier.
:-)
SteveT
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