[aklug] Re: multiple distros coordinate to establish /run directory

From: Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Apr 04 2011 - 22:36:39 AKDT

I won't attempt to answer for Greg, but the business world has mostly
moved to the internet. The business world on the internet is designed
assuming a graphical desktop is available. Business is where the money
is. He who pays the piper, calls the tune. I think we're stuck with
graphical desktops.

Yes Bryan, you can avoid the graphical desktop in your world. I can't in
my world. This doesn't mean I have any desire whatsoever for Windows or
Mac.

I don't fully understand systemd as yet. In what I have read about since
the start of this discussion on the list there seem to be some aspects
of the concept that make me uncomfortable.

Despite it only recently being mention here, LWN has an article about it
from about a year ago. They were talking about the possibility of it
being the default on Fedora 14 (it didn't make it), its availability in
Gentoo, in Ubuntu, in SuSE. It is available for f14 though and the
configuration tool, files, and directories for it are installed by
default.

https://lwn.net/Articles/389149/

Jim G

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:19 -0800, bryanm@acsalaska.net wrote:
> On Thu, March 31, 2011 3:29 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> > I am not liking the direction GNU/linux is headed. My perspective is user
> > space,
> > new software introduces new bugs and regressions. I don't see the point in
> > stuff
> > that once worked no longer working, or taking more time and/or resources to
> > do.
> > The KDE4 & now Gnome3 Juggernauts are good examples.
> >
> > I do think Gnome3 is aimed at ex Windows users. It is getting harder to keep
> > your
> > hands on the keyboard to do work, that mouse thing is taking over.
> >
> > I am not into Desktop Environments, but do appreciate latest versions of core
> > applications for my work. Catch 22?
>
> Greg, do you actually need Gnome or KDE running to make the
> applications work? I don't use a desktop environment either,
> but I can run programs from those projects as long as I have
> the libraries installed.
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>
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