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Saturday, November 29th, 2014
| Time |
Event |
| 12:59a |
The "Devuan" Debian fork A group of developers has announcedthe existence of a fork of the Debian distribution called " Devuan." " First mid-term goal is to
produce a reliable and minimalist base distribution that stays away from
the homogenization and lock-in promoted by systemd. This distribution
should be ready about the time Debian Jessie is ready and will constitute a
seamless alternative to its dist-upgrade. As of today, the only ones
resisting are the Slackware and Gentoo distributions, but we need to
provide a solid ground also for apt-get based distributions. All project on
the downstream side of Debian that are concerned by the systemd avalanche
are welcome to keep an eye on our initiative and evaluate it as an
alternative base." | | 7:00p |
[$] Touring the hidden corners of LWN
One of the more surprising outcomes (to us) of the recent systemd "debates"
in our
comments section was finding out that some subscribers did not know of our
comment
filtering feature. Subscribers have been able to filter out specific
commenters since 2010, but knowledge of that feature seems to have
dissipated over time. We certainly could do a better job of documenting
all of our features, but we thought it might be a good time to both introduce
a couple of new features while refreshing
people's memories of some of the features we already offer. | | 7:09p |
LSF/MM 2015 Call For Proposals
The 2015 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management summit will be
held March 9 and 10 in Boston. The call for agenda proposals has
gone out, with a deadline of January 16. Attendance will be capped to
facilitate discussions, so developers who are interested in attending this
event might want to get their proposals in soon. |
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