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Autor: Marjorie Roome
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] News about Devuan 5 on the web.
On Fri, 2023-08-25 at 17:06 -0300, altoid via Dng wrote:
> Hello:
>
> On 25 Aug 2023 at 21:42, tito via Dng wrote:
>
> > ... news about devuan 5 on the web:
> Yes.
>
> Citing my post on Dev1:
>
> ---
>
> I am of those that think that itis better to be talked about than
> ignored, but ...
>
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > Devuan is a hard distro to summarize.
>
> > On the one hand, the sort of xNix graybeard who favours Debian is
> > also exactly the sort of curmudgeon who harbors grave concern about
> > systemd, so it's good that there's an option.
>
> > On the other hand, it's bad that it split the already understaffed
> > Debian developer community.
>
> I'll just hold my thoughts and go make me a cuppa.
>
> ---
>
> Hard to summarise?
>
> Summarise *this*:
>
> For being part of the staff of a well known IT publication, the
> extent of Liam Proven's bias against Devuan and any other non-systemd
> OS is really astonishing.
>

On the other hand /some/ of the issues he had with getting the
installers to work are also to be seen in posts by other users on the
Dev1Galaxy forum.

Not seen any of this myself as I've only done upgrades from Chimaera
and they worked perfectly.

Needless to say, I'm sure the installer issues will be fixed soon but
pity they weren't before reviewers got their hands on them.

--
Marjorie