On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:38:16 +0200
Gianluca Zoni via Dng <dng@???> wrote:

> Il 11-07-24, 13:03, Peter Duffy <peter@???> ha scritto:
> > I personally found Steve's post very interesting.
> >
> > Characteristics of one linux distribution are clearly relevant to
> > others, and changes in one distribution may have an effect on others -
> > beneficial or not.
>
> mine wasn't a polemical question: I would just like to understand
> what should be interesting in someone who talks about something
> that - no one knows why - is not for everyone but only for
> someone, in a certain place inaccessible and unattainable for
> almost all the members to the list. I just want to understand
> this mystery.
>
> However, just to increase the suspense, I would like to remind
> everyone, in any case, that the United States of America is NOT
> the center of the world: best wishes for your interesting chat
> with friends under the stairs.
>
> Personally, it wouldn't even occur to me to write in an
> international mailing list about my public speech somewhere in
> in the middle of nowhere, unless it's a truly international
> public context on a topic that concerns the same list: writing
> this seems stupidly narcissistic to me. We're not on the mailing
> list of a neighborhood LUG
>
> many readers of this mailing list are forced to use a foreign
> language: we should have respect for those who read these emails
> and are not part of the small group of friends in the
> neighborhood next door
>
> therefore, not being able to participate, as I imagine almost all
> of the subscribers to the list do, I renew my request: what is
> interesting to listen to, if it's not OT?
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2024-07-11 at 12:24 +0200, Gianluca Zoni via Dng wrote:
> > > why should your personal speech in a conference about another
> > > GNU/Linux distribution, totally different from Devuan (in fact,
> > > it's not for everyone), be on topic?
> > >
> > >
> > > Il 11-07-24, 02:02, Steve Litt <slitt@???> ha
> > > scritto:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > The Thursday, 7/11/2024 Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) meeting
> > > > commences at 7pm Mountain Standard Time (NOT daylight savings time)
> > > > online at https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx . This
> > > > will
> > > > be a repeat of my 7/3/2024 Void presentation, but at a time more
> > > > convenient to North Americans west of the Mississippi River.
> > > >
> > > > The past few months the Void Linux distribution has become the
> > > > subject of curiosity and questions from folks wanting something
> > > > closer
> > > > to the metal, folks wanting to shed their training wheels, folks
> > > > who
> > > > want a rolling release that doesn't mess you up every few updates,
> > > > folks curious about the runit init system, for folks looking for a
> > > > smaller, cleaner musl based Linux, and from folks who just wonder
> > > > what
> > > > all the hype is about.
> > > >
> > > > I'm often the recipient of these questions because I've used Void
> > > > since March 2015. I'll answer all these questions at this online
> > > > GoLUG
> > > > meeting. If people want to ask me questions about the runit init
> > > > system,
> > > > that's also on topic.
> > > >
> > > > During the meeting I'll demonstrate a Void Linux Virtual Machine
> > > > installation.
> > > >
> > > > It's important to remember that Void Linux isn't for everyone. Not
> > > > even
> > > > for the majority. For some, this presentation helps by showing what
> > > > Void Linux can do and how to achieve it. For others, it's an early
> > > > clue
> > > > that Void's not right for them, so they can spend the time looking
> > > > at
> > > > other distros.
> > > >
> > > > I'll save plenty of time to answer questions posed by attendees, so
> > > > this presentation can serve as a first step in evaluating Void
> > > > Linux.
> > > > Hope to see you there.
> > > >
> > > > SteveT

< start of very off-topic>
Hi,

it seems to me this is another form of the disease of the century
better known as social media outrage, here in minor form due to
the slower email media used.
To my friends that found the announcement off-topic I would like
to ask if they agree that by communicating their dislike for the
the topic they made it even a bigger topic where some list
members felt forced to take sides thus igniting a still ongoing
chain reaction?
What is wrong with just ignoring a post you didn't care about?
You understand that this form of quarrels just for the sake of
quarrelling can harm our understaffed community project more
than doing any good to it?

Ciao,
Tito
< /end of very off-topic>