Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: Doug wrote: On 10/21/2014 08:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be becoming less and less relevant. Well if everybody is forced to use systemd you'll be right. All the distros will _have_ to be the same. May

Re: Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-22 Thread tor...@riseup.net
Doug wrote: >On 10/21/2014 08:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be >> becoming less and less relevant. > Well if everybody is forced to use systemd you'll be right. All the >distros will _have_ to be the same. Maybe the packaging wi

Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Doug
On 10/21/2014 08:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be > becoming less and less relevant. Well if everybody is forced to use systemd you'll be right. All the distros will _have_ to be the same. Maybe the packaging will remain unique.

Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
I'll try uselessd before anything else more radical... But, Paul from debian.org told me (us) that systemd will NOT replace dpkg/apt. Again, lets try uselessd. It already seems much better than upstart (just a guess)...;-P Also, apparently, we're getting off-topic with this subject around he

just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be becoming less and less relevant. I'm serious considering moving to a continuous integration toolchain (Chef or Puppet + Jenkins, or some such) and just building/maintaining our servers directly from upstream source. Though

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-27 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/27/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:38:36 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: [...] > Never fear, within a few generations software barons will be a thing > of the past. And a certain software robber baron of today will be remembered as a selfless guy who

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 17:38:36 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: [...] > Never fear, within a few generations software barons will be a thing > of the past. And a certain software robber baron of today will be remembered as a selfless guy who helped to cure malaria. -- Regards, Florian

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-26 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/26/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > >> In other words, if one is willing to put in minimal effort YES! Go for >> it! >> > > Gamers I know ONLY care about gaming. They have no motivation to swith,

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-26 Thread Derek
winex/cedega works good,I can even play gta san andreas with it.On 7/26/06, edwardsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Carl Fink wrote:> On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0300, David Baron wrote: In other words, if one is willing to put in minimal effort YES! Go for>> it! Gamers I know ONL

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-26 Thread edwardsa
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0300, David Baron wrote: In other words, if one is willing to put in minimal effort YES! Go for it! Gamers I know ONLY care about gaming. They have no motivation to swith, because no "cool" games are unique to Linux. My exp

Re: Just a thought

2006-07-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0300, David Baron wrote: > In other words, if one is willing to put in minimal effort YES! Go for > it! Gamers I know ONLY care about gaming. They have no motivation to swith, because no "cool" games are unique to Linux. -- Carl Fink

RE: Just a thought

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
Actually: XP can run games written for it a some but not all games written for previous windows version. One can of course boot up CDs for self-booting games. Linux, on the otherhand: Can run games written for it. These include knockoffs of most windows classics such a solitaire and freecell.