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Author: Steve Litt
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Why Debian 8 Pinning is (or isn't) pointless
On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 13:15:23 -0700
Rick Moen <rick@???> wrote:

> Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):
>
> > Whether he uses Devuan in a virtual machine is not directly relevant
> > to me. I appreciate that when he's tinkering with the innards of a
> > distro it may be vastly convenient to do it in a virtual machine
> > rather than bare metal, expecially if things go wrong.
>
> I talk to Steve in other contexts, and he is overwhelmingly a Void
> Linux user. He doesn't really use Devuan in any significant sense at
> all. Thus my point. But it's just an observation in passing -- that
> the impassioned rhetoric was particularly funny in that light.


What Rick says is true. For my use case, Void is better than Devuan.

But I have a wife, a son, and two daughters, and my life is much easier
with them running Devuan.

And there's something else. The Devuan project has soul. Just look at
the interactions, the accomplishments. It's like being a soul singer in
Detroit in the 1964, like being an outdoor roller skater in Venice,
CA in 1979, or starting up a website in 1995: Right place, right time,
the best people.

If, by hanging out here, I can in some little ways help the cause,
that makes me very happy.

SteveT

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