[manjaro-dev] manjaro-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 17

Ringo de Kroon ringodekroon at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 21:29:43 CET 2013


But it is not a point that you have a such as half freezin rolling 
releas matter what you called ..

only well tested system  will for update, but people that comes from 
such as windows you have to deal with it completely, not thinking of 
ncurses interface or terminal those thinking is on second plan. Master 
plan would be such a Gui intergration of some system work. If you wanna 
reach those people. You have setup a lot of Gui Apps to control te 
system and make it more user friendly you dont come with one extra 
people. that extra one could do maintaining testing etc... but you need 
extra men to have set a userfriendly base in for front. Mayby you have 
fixed the issue to make it freez is nothing wrong with it anyway. But 
thats not the issue you have to deal with other part how to setup easy a 
dualscreen in gui setting doesnt matter if you use nonfree or free. or 
setup an mythtv on a gui-plan nat like arch.

you speaks about another type of level that it need.. on this point you 
have a time to setup up new type of apps in the next version but 
still... if you wanna megrate new users than you have to think what 
ubuntu or mageia does in some way. Make thinks setup easier.

:)
op 08-11-13 15:57, manjaro-dev-request at manjaro.org schreef:
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>     1. Re: Static (non-rolling) option (Rob McCathie)
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>     3. [pamac] 0.9 with AUR support (Guillaume Benoit)
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> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 22:48:47 +1100
> From: Rob McCathie <korrode at gmail.com>
> To: manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
> Subject: Re: [manjaro-dev] Static (non-rolling) option
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> Unless I were to try to keep up with comprehensive backporting of security
> patches/fixes, which certainly to start with I wouldn't be (I'd just
> clearly state it's not recommended for internet facing servers), the
> workload should actually be pretty light most of the year, except
> surrounding release time.
>
> That said, it does concern me a bit, i'd really want a second person on
> board. Originally I contemplated a non-rolling Arch project with a friend
> who is a capable Linux user/admin & developer (housemate at the time, years
> back now) and the plan was to both run it. I've been meaning to get in
> touch with him and see if he's still interested, but my hopes aren't that
> high if it's to be based on Manjaro, because he's a bit of an Arch purist.
>
> Regarding my attention on Manjaro proper, don't take the hypotheticals and
> the questions i've been asking as meaning i'm definitely going to start
> this project, it's still a very big maybe at this point. I'd *like* to have
> something that both I can run and that i'm comfortable giving to
> friends/family of varying computing literacy, but I certainly don't *need*
> it. I can just drop openSUSE on their systems and I'll just run it in a VM
> or on a secondary system.
>
> Also a couple of weeks ago I started putting together another Manjaro
> respin that is designed to be very comfortable for novice users, with basic
> needs, coming from Windows. Though almost completely unconfigurable (user
> can't even choose which apps they install) i'm hoping it will be, partially
> as a result, unbreakable. It's using a minimal installation and JWM, which
> these days has an ultra-conservative release cycle.
> Although it wouldn't cover the full spectrum of users that I think the
> static/non-rolling release would, it should cover a lot of them... I might
> just get back to that.
>
> Lastly btw, I have been meaning to test the new RC ISO's and try to help
> more with Manjaro... it's mainly just i've had a HDD space issue going on
> recently, lol... but i've just bought multiple new drives yesterday :D
>
> Regards,
> Rob.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Carl Duff <cdrw2400 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This has been an interesting read.
>>
>> All I would say is: make sure that you would not be heaping too much on
>> yourself, Rob. As it would be a spin-off rather than just another flavour,
>> obviously the amount of work required would be substantial.
>>
>>  From a selfish point of view, it would also be a shame to have your
>> attention and expertise directed away from the main system...
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> On 8 November 2013 08:46, Rob McCathie <korrode at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Philip M?ller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>   This is possible and we already have some ideas regarding this topic.
>>>> Actually Roland is working on such a thing with a different prospective.
>>>> This will mean a different concept as we have it now. Also lots of testing.
>>>> When we have some we can inform you. Might also want to look at frugalware,
>>>> which basically does this concept you're talking about.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Any chance you can drop some more hints on what you've got planned? How
>>> it's different?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>   Rolling releases have some downs but we try to fix them. We already
>>>> slowed it down a little but most of the people need or like the current
>>>> speed.
>>>> I think adding a longer testing period in testing might help to get it
>>>> much more stable. Maybe you point me to the edges on our current concept
>>>> and what you miss right now.
>>>>
>>> Mainly it's just the simple fact that there is a risk of breakage with
>>> every update (updates to system operation components anyway). Maybe if
>>> there was about a thousand more people running Manjaro testing branch so we
>>> really started getting some serious hardware coverage, and also wider
>>> coverage of all the packages in the Arch repos, rolling might be ok for me.
>>>
>>> I want something I can run myself and roll out to friends and perhaps
>>> even business clients. Right now Manjaro is not for newbies. I know you're
>>> all probably thinking "That's exactly who it's for!", but i'm talking about
>>> REAL novice computer users. Right now most all of Manjaro's users are at
>>> least *enthusiastic* enough about computing (even if they don't have much
>>> knowledge) to have heard of Linux and decided to try to install it. I want
>>> an Arch based distro I can roll out to people who aren't pondering what
>>> features the next release of their DE will have, or if the driver for their
>>> hardware in the Linux kernel is going to improve, because they don't know
>>> what any of those things are.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regarding a longer period in testing; it certainly has my vote.
>>>
>>> I run testing but will not perform pacman -Syu unless I know I have
>>> enough time then and there to deal with any degree of breakage, if i'm
>>> having a busy week it may be some days before i update, so yeah - a longer
>>> period would be good.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Rob.
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> manjaro-dev mailing list
>>> manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
>>> http://lists.manjaro.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/manjaro-dev
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> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:03:09 +0100
> From: Guillaume Benoit <guillaume at manjaro.org>
> To: manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
> Subject: Re: [manjaro-dev] Static (non-rolling) option
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> My thought:
> When updating you system there is always a risk a breakage, even if it's
> a "small" or "big" update. The only way to minimize it, it's to do as
> much testing as possible.
> So for me a "big" update is more dangerous for two reasons:
> - it's more difficult to prevent breakage with a "big" update than a
> "small" one.
> - if the system breaks it's hard to find what are the packages which
> caused that breakage.
>
> Also dealing with security fixes is very big job, especially with Arch
> packages which are not made for this.
>
> Le 08/11/2013 12:48, Rob McCathie a ?crit :
>> Unless I were to try to keep up with comprehensive backporting of
>> security patches/fixes, which certainly to start with I wouldn't be (I'd
>> just clearly state it's not recommended for internet facing servers),
>> the workload should actually be pretty light most of the year, except
>> surrounding release time.
>>
>> That said, it does concern me a bit, i'd really want a second person on
>> board. Originally I contemplated a non-rolling Arch project with a
>> friend who is a capable Linux user/admin & developer (housemate at the
>> time, years back now) and the plan was to both run it. I've been meaning
>> to get in touch with him and see if he's still interested, but my hopes
>> aren't that high if it's to be based on Manjaro, because he's a bit of
>> an Arch purist.
>>
>> Regarding my attention on Manjaro proper, don't take the hypotheticals
>> and the questions i've been asking as meaning i'm definitely going to
>> start this project, it's still a very big maybe at this point. I'd
>> *like* to have something that both I can run and that i'm comfortable
>> giving to friends/family of varying computing literacy, but I certainly
>> don't *need* it. I can just drop openSUSE on their systems and I'll just
>> run it in a VM or on a secondary system.
>>
>> Also a couple of weeks ago I started putting together another Manjaro
>> respin that is designed to be very comfortable for novice users, with
>> basic needs, coming from Windows. Though almost completely
>> unconfigurable (user can't even choose which apps they install) i'm
>> hoping it will be, partially as a result, unbreakable. It's using a
>> minimal installation and JWM, which these days has an ultra-conservative
>> release cycle.
>> Although it wouldn't cover the full spectrum of users that I think the
>> static/non-rolling release would, it should cover a lot of them... I
>> might just get back to that.
>>
>> Lastly btw, I have been meaning to test the new RC ISO's and try to help
>> more with Manjaro... it's mainly just i've had a HDD space issue going
>> on recently, lol... but i've just bought multiple new drives yesterday :D
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Carl Duff <cdrw2400 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:cdrw2400 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      This has been an interesting read.
>>      All I would say is: make sure that you would not be heaping too much
>>      on yourself, Rob. As it would be a spin-off rather than just another
>>      flavour, obviously the amount of work required would be substantial.
>>
>>       From a selfish point of view, it would also be a shame to have your
>>      attention and expertise directed away from the main system...
>>
>>      Carl
>>
>>      On 8 November 2013 08:46, Rob McCathie <korrode at gmail.com
>>      <mailto:korrode at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>          On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Philip M?ller <philm at manjaro.org
>>          <mailto:philm at manjaro.org>> wrote:
>>
>>              This is possible and we already have some ideas regarding
>>              this topic. Actually Roland is working on such a thing with
>>              a different prospective. This will mean a different concept
>>              as we have it now. Also lots of testing. When we have some
>>              we can inform you. Might also want to look at frugalware,
>>              which basically does this concept you're talking about.
>>
>>
>>
>>          Any chance you can drop some more hints on what you've got
>>          planned? How it's different?
>>
>>
>>
>>              Rolling releases have some downs but we try to fix them. We
>>              already slowed it down a little but most of the people need
>>              or like the current speed.
>>              I think adding a longer testing period in testing might help
>>              to get it much more stable. Maybe you point me to the edges
>>              on our current concept and what you miss right now.
>>
>>
>>          Mainly it's just the simple fact that there is a risk of
>>          breakage with every update (updates to system operation
>>          components anyway). Maybe if there was about a thousand more
>>          people running Manjaro testing branch so we really started
>>          getting some serious hardware coverage, and also wider coverage
>>          of all the packages in the Arch repos, rolling might be ok for me.
>>
>>          I want something I can run myself and roll out to friends and
>>          perhaps even business clients. Right now Manjaro is not for
>>          newbies. I know you're all probably thinking "That's exactly who
>>          it's for!", but i'm talking about REAL novice computer users.
>>          Right now most all of Manjaro's users are at least
>>          *enthusiastic* enough about computing (even if they don't have
>>          much knowledge) to have heard of Linux and decided to try to
>>          install it. I want an Arch based distro I can roll out to people
>>          who aren't pondering what features the next release of their DE
>>          will have, or if the driver for their hardware in the Linux
>>          kernel is going to improve, because they don't know what any of
>>          those things are.
>>
>>
>>          Regarding a longer period in testing; it certainly has my vote.
>>
>>          I run testing but will not perform pacman -Syu unless I know I
>>          have enough time then and there to deal with any degree of
>>          breakage, if i'm having a busy week it may be some days before i
>>          update, so yeah - a longer period would be good.
>>
>>          Regards,
>>          Rob.
>>
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> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:59:28 +0100
> From: Guillaume Benoit <guillaume at manjaro.org>
> To: manjaro-dev at manjaro.org
> Subject: [manjaro-dev] [pamac] 0.9 with AUR support
> Message-ID: <527CFC50.90607 at manjaro.org>
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> Great day for pamac!
> After long hours of work, pamac 0.9.0rc with AUR support is available :D
>
> Pamac-manager has now a "Search in AUR" option which permits you to
> search in repos and also in AUR.
> Pamac-tray and pamac-updater will also inform you if updates are
> available for AUR packages.
>
> WARNING: those options are available to ease packages management but
> Manjaro doesn't officially support AUR and by installing packages from
> AUR you do this entirely at your own risk.
>
> It's only a rc now because I need you to make some tests with you
> favourite AUR packages before considering it stable, so please test and
> report ;)
> There are also some new strings to translate.
>
> Regards,
> Guillaume.
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