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Comment Re:What was not learned from the past (Score 1) 140

It is alos why CUI bet GUI everyday, except in one category. That one category, is ease of use, but fact is lost on most a GUI programers. They go for scaling text when it gets focus or scroll bars showing it working, but forget the teaching part so the user learn.

One though project I did was GUI interface provide the learning and CUI functionality for SPEED typists up to 100 words a minute. Design was CUI interface with GUI presentation, better know as screen scraping. This even allowed for it run over 19k baud modem with the same response times as they had directly connected to network, because a screen change was 2k of characters with lots of blanks, so was compressible and transfers in sub-second response time. Drop down boxes for the mouse generation worked just like you expect a drop down but shwed two columns the text form like you expect and second column showing the speed codes. The a speed typist use the speed codes based on the codes they had been using for 20 years, with a / as the lead/shift character.

This is what I learned too. For fast (data) typists you should still use a CUi. There is no GUi that is fast enough to keep pace of a fast typist. Even a CUI in a windowed environment will still be faster then any GUI form.

Comment Re:FSF needs to take a stand against systemd. (Score 1) 46

by tramp (#55803849) Attached to: FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions
Devuan is making a lot of progress but lacks the resources of which Debian prior to the systemd debacle had available. Devuan Jessie works perfectly 24/7 on about half of my servers and security updates are available same day they arrive at Debian. About the other half of my servers are running FreeBSD. I do not like to bet on one horse after Debian went systemd.

Submission + - Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release (LTS) (devuan.org)

Submitted by batmore
batmore writes: Dear Init Freedom Lovers,

Once again the Veteran Unix Admins salute you!

Many of you might remember November 2014 when we announced that we were going to fork Debian. Well, we have done exactly that. It has been a long process, but now over two years later, we proudly present Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable.

There have been no significant bug reports since Devuan Jessie RC2 was announced only three weeks ago and the list of release critical bugs is now empty. So finally Devuan Jessie Stable is ready for release! As promised, this will also be a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release. Our team will participate in providing patches, security updates, and release upgrades beyond the planned lifespan of Debian Jessie.

A lot of appreciation has been coming our way in the last few weeks. And now with this Stable release we anticipate that even the most skeptical among private and enterprise users will finally be ready to jump on the Devuan train.

Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable is a major milestone in the new path drawn by the Devuan project and its development has provided an opportunity to lay down a strong foundation for the Devuan community. In the last two years we have put in place a powerful infrastructure to support the development and growth of Devuan, which now includes:

        Source management https://git.devuan.org/
        Continuous integration https://ci.devuan.org/
        Bug tracking https://bugs.devuan.org/
        User forum https://dev1galaxy.org/
        Package statistics and analysis https://popcon.devuan.org/

During the Jessie release cycle we have strenghtened and optimised these services and also migrated to more powerful hardware to cope with the increased loads we have experienced.

The ambitious plan to provide a no-nonsense universal GNU+Linux distribution does not stop here — it extends beyond this release.

Our main development efforts will now turn to Devuan ASCII (Minor Planet #3568), which will be the next stable release. We are confident that the preliminary ASCII ISOs could be available for testing soon. Beyond ASCII — the saga of Beowulf (Minor Planet #38086) appropriately mirrors the path we have taken. :^)

Please find below instructions to try out or install Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 Stable on your computer and to upgrade from Debian 7 (Wheezy) or Debian 8 (Jessie). If you are already using Devuan Jessie RC2, a simple apt-get update && apt-get upgrade will be enough to get the latest updates.

Submission + - Fighting Government Crippled Encryption by Turning It Off Entirely! (vortex.com)

Submitted by Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein writes: Of course, firms could indeed choose to withdraw from such markets, perhaps in conjunction with geoblocking of domestic users in those countries to meet government prohibitions against strong encryption. Pretty awful prospects.

There is another possibility though — that I’ll admit up front would be highly controversial. Rather than crippling those designated encryption systems in those countries under government orders, firms could choose to disable those encryption systems entirely!

I know that this sounds counterintuitive, but please hang with me for a few minutes!

Submission + - Removing libsystemd0 from a live-running Debian system (lkcl.net) 1

Submitted by lkcl
lkcl writes: The introduction of systemd has unilaterally created a polarisation of the GNU/Linux community that is remarkably similar to the monopolistic power position wielded by Microsoft in the late 1990s. Choices were stark: use Windows (with SMB/CIFS Services), or use UNIX (with NFS and NIS). Only the introduction of fully-compatible reverse-engineered NT Domains services corrected the situation. Instructions on how to remove systemd include dire warnings that "all dependent packages will be removed", rendering a normal Debian Desktop system flat-out impossible to achieve. It was therefore necessary to demonstrate that it is actually possible to run a Debian Desktop GUI system (albeit an unusual one: fvwm) with libsystemd0 removed. The reason for doing so: it doesn't matter how good systemd is believed to be or in fact actually is: the reason for removing it is, apart from the alarm at how extensive systemd is becoming (including interfering with firewall rules), it's the way that it's been introduced in a blatantly cavalier fashion as a polarised all-or-nothing option, forcing people to consider abandoning the GNU/Linux of their choice and to seriously consider using FreeBSD or any other distro that properly respects the Software Freedom principle of the right to choose what software to run. We aren't all "good at coding", or paid to work on Software Libre: that means that those people who are need to be much more responsible, and to start — finally — to listen to what people are saying. Developing a thick skin is a good way to abdicate responsibility and, as a result, place people into untenable positions.

Submission + - If Ebola's a problem here, just imagine it in India (computerworld.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: As the U.S. has discovered, it just takes a few cases of Ebola to turn things upside down. Months into the outbreak in West Africa, federal and state officials are still fighting over quarantine policies and travel bans, and reacting in disruptive fashion to the threat. But an Ebola outbreak in India, for instance, could create problems in the U.S. because of its role as a major IT services provider. "Ebola cases showing up in urban India area would be a nightmare," said Andrew Schroeder, director of research and analysis for Direct Relief, a nonprofit that provides medical assistance to areas in need of help. Dense populations, living in slums with poor sanitation and inadequate medical help, would complicate an Ebola fight. Everest Group, an outsourcing research firm said, that in India, IT organizations often make bus transportation available to team members, and it’s easy to imagine an Ebola-related scenario in which bus transportation is shut down. Working from home may not be an option, since lack of connectivity and security concerns "often make working remotely from homes not possible," said Marvin Newell, a partner at Everest. Craig Wright, a partner at outsourcing consulting firm Pace Harmon, said that a valid response to any such Ebola outbreak would be similar to a tsunami, "where access to facilities and resources within a region may be denied for an extended period of time."

Submission + - Incredible New Network Speed Record - 43Tbps (gizmobeast.com)

Submitted by J.R.C.L.
J.R.C.L. writes: Good news errant downloaders. You can now download a 1GB movie in 0.2 milliseconds ( given your computer can keep up ).

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) have reclaimed a world record for the world data transfer record when it managed to transfer fully 43 terabits per second by using single multi-core optical fibre, which was developed by Japanese firm Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

The previous record was held since 2011 by the Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie in Germany, who created a network able to reach speeds of 32 terabits per second.

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