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posted by janrinok on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the do-you-want-to-help? dept.

[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


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by canopic jug on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:54AM (3 children)

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:54AM (#609134) Journal

    Thanks.

    Another link that I should have added to the summary is to a blog post about why Devuan has become increasingly important [ungleich.ch].

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:03AM

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday December 13 2017, @10:03AM (#609164) Journal

    I am in a parallel universe with debs and no (or reduced presence of)systemd with antix and mx linux, but I am surely going to check the beta out. Whoever does things without systemd helps you too.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2017, @07:21PM (#609327)

    The Devuan developers and users are free to use their software as they like in the spirit of free-as-in-freedom software. I wish them all success and happiness.

    But I don't get the horror stories over systemd. I've been using it for years without problems. We use it on hundreds of bare metal and virtual servers at work without problems. Literally tens of millions of servers, maybe hundreds of millions, use it without problems.

    The only time I had a systemd problem was when I had an entry in /etc/fstab for an NTFS drive that was not cleanly powered down by Windows when we lost power. Systemd failed to mount the drive at boot, and halted the boot process because it couldn't reach the local-fs.target. After five minutes of research, I booted the machine from a USB flash drive and modified /etc/fstab to put a 'nofail' option on the entries that aren't critical to the boot process. Restarted, and all was well. Note that this isn't a bug that would affect a casual Linux user because I had entered the original fstab entry by hand myself, the installer hadn't done it for me.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:47AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @11:47AM (#609662)

      It's nice if you don't have gotten any grief because it. But are you aware of the design decisions like the "root by default" thing? It's not exactly awe inspiring. Also the devs have a not-so-small god complex and brush aside everybody they disagree with just because. Then there's the Linux == Red Hat perspective which is not too healthy either. And the mission creep. etcetc

      Just saying that even if many people boast they use windoze or OSSUX without any issues doesn't mean all is fine.