no no plz not.
ahhhhhhhhhhhh



2015-04-01 12:18 GMT+02:00 Linux O'Beardly <linux.obeardly@???>:

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