And FTR, I forgot it was April Fool's Day and my heart literally sank
during my initial reading of this email. Good one!

Linux O'Beardly
@LinuxOBeardly
http://o.beard.ly



On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Linux O'Beardly <linux.obeardly@???>
wrote:

> Happy April Fools, you limey bastards.
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Veteran Unix Admins <vua-reply@???>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Init Freedom lovers,
>>
>> Once again the Veteran Unix Admin collective salutes you!
>>
>> As most of you know, we have followed up with our intentions in
>> developing Devuan GNU/Linux right after Ian Jackson's GR vote resolution
>> in Debian. We have made great progress and achieved several milestones
>> among them a complete SDK to facilitate package maintainance, a new
>> package repository software "Amprolla" and a continuous integration
>> workflow based on gitlab and Jenkins. We are also proud to have
>> facilitate the work of Jude Nelson on a new /dev daemon implementation
>> called VDev and more in general to have given voice to all those who had
>> doubts about systemd being a viable course of evolution for GNU/Linux
>> operating systems.
>>
>>
>> By doing so we have obviously looked deep inside Debian and systemd
>> itself and we have never refrained from critically analysing what
>> systemd was doing as well what we were doing and the reasons for it.
>>
>> We firmly believe every responsible and critical engineer out there
>> should at least think twice about developing something new systems and
>> even Donald Knuth teaches us in the Art of Programming that is always
>> appropriate to re-think and re-design algorithms and challenge ourselves
>> over our own initial beliefs.
>>
>>
>> That's why today, after 7 months of work in the direction of forking
>> Debian we have decided that not, we will not do that. Today we give up
>> and we accept to be assimilated. After all, we think that systemd is
>> not so bad and we can live with it.
>>
>> We understand some of you may not be convinced, but please consider our
>> decision here is really well thought. It is also too hard for us to
>> catch up with the rampant development going on in systemd and we believe
>> that we can live just fine with systemd and some shims. We tried hard,
>> now we hope you will believe us and even if you don't, at least please
>> give systemd a try.
>>
>> With the existing infrastructure in place, we will start maintaining a
>> mirror of systemd and use our CI infrastructure to contribute
>> deterministic reproducible builds of Debian packages.
>>
>> We ask the free and open source software community at large to please
>> accept our apologies for making so much noise on this issue, today we
>> feel like we have just been trolled by all those complainers we
>> initially gave voice and leverage, while it is evident they have nothing
>> to contribute really. It took us some time to understand that systemd is
>> the future and we hope this experience contributes to a critical
>> understanding of systemd.
>>
>> To all those who have donated substantial amounts of money so far: we
>> commit to return you all the donations in EUR or Dogecoin. The donations
>> that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give
>> back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as
>> well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor
>> children in Africa.
>>
>> so long and thanks for all the fish,
>>
>> The Veteran Unix Admins
>>
>>
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