alume wrote:
> Another success in trying to break the logical perfection of the Unix file system?

It was "broken" back in the 1970s, by Ken and Dennis themselves; long before Linus or Ian even touched a computer, or Richard got annoyed with Xerox.

Even though I agree that moving bin, lib and sbin into /usr is not the right solution, it is a minor issue compared to so many other problems.

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In any case it's good that the Devuan team have made a clear announcement to follow Debian's lead on this and focus efforts on the Devuan project's stated aims.

Running git reset revision will change where HEAD is pointed, and - depending on various factors - may or not result in losing history, and may affect the ability to interact with remotes.

Alternatively, git checkout -b branch revision will create a new local branch at that point, allowing one to make changes but not lose history, and retaining the ability to push/pull as normal.

There are a bunch of other potential options depending on precisely what the situation is and what the desired outcome is.

Microsoft does not respect its users - it treats them as a resource to be spied upon and exploited.

This is true for Microsoft Windows, and it is true for Microsoft GitHub - there have been numerous demonstrations of this for anyone paying attention.

Frankly, I struggle to comprehend how people who otherwise care enough to use Devuan can be ok with GitHub.

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Codeberg is one of several alternatives, and to see what's good about them one can simply start with looking at the homepage:

In addition, they have a migration feature to make it easier to migrate existing projects away from GitHub (or GitLab/others), though obviously for a new project one doesn't need to use that.

Arcolinux is just Arch with stuff pre-installed, including systemd.

Artix is Arch without systemd, and thus is the complement to Devuan (for those who want a rolling Pacman-based distro).

The instructions in post #2 appear to refer to the Dev1Galaxy forum.

It's unclear whether the statement in post #1 is referring to the installer or the installed system, and how much this is a Devuan issue or a Debian one, but seems to be it's definitely not referring to this forum.

This Debian page says the Russian translation is 90% complete, and there is a page written in Russian at //wiki.debian.org/ru/L10n/Russian which might be relevant to increasing that percentage.

If the issue is actually Devuan-specific, more details would be required.

Fair enough - I missed that post.

Searching for xorg in the Devuan repos only returns xorg-server - which is the source package for "xserver-xorg-core", aka "Xorg X server - core server".

That's different to the "X.Org X Window System" from the "xorg" package I was referring to, but it is a dependency of it.

Searching the debtree of xorg for "devuan" highlights that xserver-common is also a fork, (unsurprising since it comes from the same xorg-server source package), but the debtree doesn't directly highlight that xserver-xorg-core is itself forked - would be nice if there was some way to have an indication of that.

It also seems the issue in your linked thread has yet to be resolved - based on the versions listed at //pkginfo.devuan.org/xserver-xorg-core and //tracker.debian.org/pkg/xorg-server, there should be a 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u4devuan1 in daedalus-proposed-updates and a 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u5devuan1 in daedalus-security channel.

You appear to have missed the part of brocashelm's post stating the "asterisks are there because FluxBB apparently fails to parse things dynamically".

In other words, they added the asterisks because FluxBB is badly written, and complains if one tries to use "[c][quote][/c]", and the easiest workaround is to insert a dummy character.

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The point they were trying to make is that clicking a button to add empty quote tags is near worthless - typing two tags is trivial. The lack of a per-post option makes it harder to keep track of things one might want to reply to.

Steve is not whining. (Your mention of feeding birds has a slight ring of that though.)

Have you tried asking the court if non-proprietary alternatives can be used - yeah, they may say no, but you'll never know if you don't ask. (And similarly, they might never learn why it matters if nobody ever raises the subject.)

In any case, DropBox almost certainly still has a browser-based interface, removing the need to install anything.

You're requesting the already stretched Devuan team of volunteers divert their time into investigating proprietary software for you? :|

Why don't you setup an isolated VM and check it out yourself?

Or even better, use something non-proprietary like Nextcloud that is already supported.

How does that script compare to the nftables init script which is already in the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package?

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Looking at the nftables.init script the answer seems to be: the official-but-going-away script has better logging with a verbose option, and correctly sets name/desc variables, but not sure if there's any material difference...?

Hibernation is different to the "Fast Startup" (i.e. fake shutdown) which arrived with Windows 8.

//techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ask-the-performance-team/windows-8-windows-server-2012-faster-boot-process/ba-p/375131

It does not exist in Windows 7.

That all three OSes mentioned boot slowly on an old computer containing 2008 spinning drives shouldn't be a surprise - even if WD3200AAKS usually has better performance than Samsung HD080HJ, there are plenty of factors which might account for the reported 5 seconds difference.

Anyhow, if people want to discuss boot times, might I suggest a distinct dedicated thread (with some degree of methodicalness applied).

The recommended sources.list for Daedalus is this:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus          main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates  main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main

Adding non-free-firmware repository is useful if used by the hardware in question.

Adding non-free and contrib are NOT needed.

Gimp is in the main repository.