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augustin
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:34 pm    Post subject: Devuan [Debian systemd-free fork] project abandonned Reply with quote

It's official, the Devuan developers (who forked Debian over systemd) give up.
They recognize defeat in front of the immensity of the task and go back to the debian/systemd fold:

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BREAKING NEWS: Ultimately, we give up. Read here in detail

https://devuan.org/
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20150401.095603.4a3a1e39.en.html

Oh well... I least they got the date right!
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1013964.html
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The donations that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor children in Africa.

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fitzcarraldo wrote:
Veteran Unix Admins wrote:
The donations that cannot be returned will be used for a petition campaign to give back Kay Sievers access to push modifications to the Linux kernel, as well to distribute the upcoming O'Reilly book on systemd to poor children in Africa.

:lol:


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wasn't there in years gone by a "Gentoo to Become a Binary Distribution" announcement on April 1?

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2015 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favorite was the 2004 "geNToo"
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