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Author: Narcis Garcia
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Future of gNewSense: Debian or Devuan?
I'm sorry, this is the source of the original thread:
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
And concrete letters:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gnewsense-users/2019-07/index.html


El 1/8/19 a les 18:26, Steve Litt ha escrit:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:29:39 +0200
> Narcis Garcia <informatica@???> wrote:
>
>> -------- Missatge reenviat --------
>> Assumpte: Re: [gNewSense-users] Stepping down
>> Data: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 22:45:32 +0200
>> De: Sam Geeraerts <samgee@???>
>> A: gnewsense-users@???
>>
>> On 29/07/19 17:10, Will Hill wrote:
>>> It would probably be easier to take non free software out of Devuan
>>> than it is to take Systemd out of Debian, so I'll be happy if
>>> gNewSense continues the easy way.
>>
>> Indeed, at least technically. If there's anyone here who knows some
>> Devuan people it would be interesting to hear from him/her.
>
> There's not enough context here to understand, and the attributions
> appear screwed up. I have no Devuan posts from Sam Geeraerts nor Will
> Hill, so I'm assuming this came in from somewhere else
> (gnewsense-users@??? maybe?).
>
> Anyway, if this is a suggestion to yank all nonfree out of Devuan and
> call it something else, that's fine with me. As a matter of fact,
> Devuan could slowly, selectively and judiciously make the same
> substitutions as the child distro.
>
> But if the suggestion is to yank out nonfree and call it Devuan, for
> practical purposes that would make Devuan unbootable for a lot of
> people. Malfunctions during boot can have causes depending on tens or
> hundreds of factors, many hidden away. It's a bridge too far to
> expect someone booting up a distro for the first time to 1)
> Know all his hardware, 2) Know exactly what drivers and firmware to
> use, 3) Know where to find those drivers and firmware, 4) Know all the
> commands to correctly load those drivers and firmware from a thumb
> drive, and 5) Have enough spare time to go through all this.
>
>
> SteveT
>
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