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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
Le 05/01/2016 04:30, Simon Wise a écrit :
> On 05/01/16 08:10, Svante Signell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 20:43 +0000, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>>> karl@??? writes:
>>>> chaosesqueteam@???:
>>>>> I don't understand the desire to change it at all.
>>
>> See UsrMerge discussion on debian-devel. They wan to move most stuff
>> in / to
>> /usr and make it readonly. (The only sensible motivation I've found
>> so far is
>> for NFS, but how many people use that?
>
> It would seem to be a potentially useful tool in managing a fleet of
> locked-down desktops with the end users prevented from modifying their
> system.


     It's frozen, like Knoppix. It's sometimes convenient, but it's not 
an evolving distro like Debian or RedHat. I imagine RedHat shipping a 
DVD to their clients for every security update or bug fix!


     Didier