Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...
On 05/11/14 12:28, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
>> Le mardi, 4 novembre 2014, 17.13:05 Miles Fidelman a écrit :
>>> Personally, the more this drags on, the more I'm convinced that those
>>> of us who deploy and manage servers would really benefit from a fork
>>> that retains the "flavor" and philosophy of pre-systemd (and maybe
>>> pre-udev) Debian.
As JS posted - it's likely that the majority of us sit somewhere in
between the two extremes (Conservative Fundamentalists and Cutting Edge
Advocates).
>> Just.
>> Do.
>> It.
>>
>> It might even be successful! We'll be in a better world with a new
>> distro out there satisfying needs not satisfied anymore by Debian!
I'd have to agree with another poster - it's logistically more likely to
succeed[*1] (and be less divisive) if it was a Debian derivative.
[*1] I haven't noticed anyone volunteering to do the work - as opposed
to "organizing" others.
>>
>> By all means, transform this energy into action and create the free
>> software environment that you need. It will be more work than whining on
>> lists, sure, but that's the only way to make the change fitting your
>> hopes eventually happen.
>
> Before embarking on a major project,
i.e. Your project - to remove systemd from Debian?
Good advice deserves the same in return:-
If you want to play general, you'd do better recruiting volunteer
soldiers if you didn't insist on staying behind the backlines.
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>
> So, in other words, bugger off.
Please try and be pleasant - no one has said that, you clearly have the
wrong end of the offence.
Sadly, it's your constant haranguing, unsubstantiated claims, and
character attacks that are the offence.
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
>
Kind regards
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