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Re: [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes

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On 19.12.2022 at 08:13, Dan Espen scribbled:

> Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> writes:
> 
> > 	I started seriously with Mandriva 2006 but in 2011 that
> > company failed to produce a system that would work on my
> > then computer.  After some experimentation I ended up on PCLinuxOS
> > and am using it right now it is a lot like Mandriva but Mageia
> > which is made up of former Mandriva programmers, etc. adopted
> > systemd and that is sad. PCLinuxOS is systemd Free and it started
> > with Mandrake images.  All the history is on Wikipedia.  
> 
> I'm very happy with a systemd based Linux.

I was opposed to systemd at first as well, but once I started looking
into what it really is, how it works and what it offered, I consider it
progress, and I wouldn't want to go back to SysVinit anymore.

systemd is modular, and one only has to use the parts one chooses.  For
instance, I myself have no use for systemd-homed — even though I can see
where it might be useful — and so I'm not using that.  

It's a lot easier to enable/disable, start/stop and even mask/unmask
services in systemd than in SysVinit, and the configuration is all done
through plain text files and symlinks, or even simpler — when sticking
to already existing services on your system — with a simple one-line
command.

As for my first distribution, that was Mandrake 6.0 PowerPack, back in
1999.  I stuck with Mandrake until it became Mandriva, when they then
fired their own founder (Gaël Duval) and their main packager (Bill
Reynolds, alias TexStar/Tex).  I then ran PCLinuxOS for a while, which
was created by Tex, then Mageia, then PCLOS again, and for the last
nearly four years, I've been running Manjaro, which is an Arch spinoff.

I've also used many different distributions on servers — Debian,
CentOS, Slackware, SuSE et al — and I've even dabbled with Gentoo for a
while, but the problem with Gentoo is that by the time you're finished
compiling a certain package, there's already a newer version waiting in
the pipeline, so to speak, and having monitored the developers' mailing
list, I also have my considerations regarding their attitude toward
both their users and their elitist development model with proxy
maintainers who get to do all the work, but who don't get any of the
credit for it and aren't even allowed to partake in the mailing list.

Being Arch-based, Manjaro isn't for everyone — notwithstanding that it
attracts a great number of absolute n00bs — but for myself, it's the
ideal distro now.  It's a rolling-release, so it's sufficiently
cutting-edge, but it's also curated, so that cutting edge isn't exactly
covered in blood anymore either.

-- 
With respect,
= Aragorn =

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  Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> - 2022-12-18 20:28 +0000
  Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-12-18 17:16 -0600
    Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2022-12-18 19:21 -0500
      [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-12-18 19:07 -0600
        Re: [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2022-12-19 00:22 -0500
          Re: [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2022-12-18 21:30 -0800
            Re: [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2022-12-19 08:13 -0500
              Re: [OT] Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Aragorn <telcontar@duck.com> - 2022-12-19 15:51 +0100
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  Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Bob Tennent <rdtennent@tennent.ca> - 2022-12-19 01:53 +0000
    Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2022-12-19 03:58 +0000
      Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2022-12-19 18:08 +0000
  Re: xsnow, penguins & eyes Marco Moock <nn263@uni-heidelberg.de> - 2022-12-19 13:10 +0100

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