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[Ed's note: ASCII is the name given to the next release of Devuan]
"Dear D1rs,
there will be a Devuan ASCII sprint on 15-16-17th December 2017 (this coming weekend). The aim is to squash a few outstanding bugs in Devuan ASCII, with the view of preparing a beta release.
Some of the tasks require "hands-on" to the repos and other services, but virtually everybody else can help by testing packages, fixes, upgrade paths, patches, installation material, and so on, so anybody with some time to spare over the next week-end is welcome to join.
A list of currently outstanding bugs relevant for ASCII can be found at:
http://bugs.devuan.org//cgi/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&data=ascii
If you can provide more info on those bugs, or patches, or anything, be prepared to do so.
There is no fixed schedule so far, but the best way to get in touch and "do things" is probably by hanging around on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on #devuan-dev. More detailed information will be provided sooner [closer?] to the date.
Come on, let's put ASCII out.
The Dev1Devs "
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20171211.190051.843303de.en.html
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:31AM (9 children)
Why on earth did they choose "ASCII" as name? Do they want to suggest that they don't have proper Unicode support?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:45AM (1 child)
https://devuan.org/os/releases [devuan.org]
Still don't know why they picked ASCII. If they wanted to pick a Minor Planet with a Computer Science themed name, they could have picked Adalovelace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:44PM
> they could have picked Adalovelace.
Ya, pornstar names would have worked better.
[thatsthejoke.jpg]
(Score: 5, Informative) by KritonK on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:55AM (2 children)
When Devuan was first forked, just about the only information one could find about it was that its distributions would be named after minor planets. For compatibility with Debian, they'd start with 10464 Jessie, so that their Jessie fork would have the same name, and then they'd switch to names beginning with successive letters of the alphabet, starting with A: 3568 ASCII, 38086 Beowulf, 1 Ceres, and so on. They probably chose ASCII for the name of their first distribution after Jessie, because of the association of the name with computing. I don't know if there is a minor planet named Unicode but, if there is, I wouldn't be surprised if they use it, when the time comes to pick a name beginning with U.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MadTinfoilHatter on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:32AM (1 child)
To expand a bit on that, since it could be misinterpreted so that the Devuan release following "Beowulf" is going to be "Ceres", which is not the case. Ceres is (forever) the name of the unstable Devuan release, corresponding to Debian Sid. Ceres was picked simply because it's minor planet #1. When the time comes for a "C"-named Devuan, some other name than that will be used.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:19AM
If there's an astronomer reading this: please discover a minor planet and name it CentOS. :)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @09:20AM (2 children)
They also made a mistake in naming their initial release jessie leading to name collisions in scripts the naturally assumed jessie was debian, making conversion to support devuan a pain. ascii, again poor choice. beowulf, means clustering to every one else.
Odd choices.
(Score: 1, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday December 13 2017, @02:26PM
A lot of our cyber companies give away their cyber. They call it free cyber. But they make it very confusing to use. Very confusing. So folks will buy the support. They make their money, the companies make their money, on the support.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:05PM
It is a convenient name to stay under the radar of meddling busybodies who would FUD Devuan in an organization. When an update to a new version happens, and the busybody says "why a minor fork, support, blah blah", you can say "it has been rock solid here for two years!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:55PM
ASCII no questions.