Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide
by Peter Reutemann
'The battle over systemd exposes a fundamental gap between the old
Unix guard and a new guard of Linux developers and admins, writes Deep
End's Paul Venezia. "Last week I posted about the schism brewing over
systemd and the curiously fast adoption of this massive change to many
Linux distributions. If there's one thing that systemd does extremely
well, it is to spark heated discussions that devolve into wild,
teeth-gnashing rants from both sides. Clearly, systemd is a polarizing
subject. If nothing else, that very fact should give one pause.
Fundamental changes in the structure of most Linux distributions
should not be met with such fervent opposition. It indicates that no
matter how reasonable a change may seem, if enough established and
learned folks disagree with the change, then perhaps it bears further
inspection before going to production. Clearly, that hasn't happened
with systemd."'
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/08/25/1730245
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
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5 years, 9 months
Meeting tonight - apology
by Michael Ryan
I'm not able to get to tonight's meeting; the Green Party have decided
to make an
appearance in TeA tonight and I want to go to it.
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WLUG meeting tomorrow
by Peter Reutemann
Hi there
There is a WLUG meeting tomorrow:
"3D animations (or CGI) are everywhere nowadays. You don't need deep
pockets for purchasing good software, the FLOSS world has its own
package for creating first-class animations:Blender.
Lawrence D'Oliveiro will give a hands-on demonstration on how to use
Blender, introduce you to the basics and show how to create simple
animations. He will also present some of the animations that he
created over the years."
http://www.meetup.com/WaikatoLinuxUsersGroup/events/197651342
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
5 years, 9 months
Qt Upgrades From LGPLv2.1 to LGPLv3
by Peter Reutemann
"Digia has announced that existing Qt modules will now be covered
under the LGPLv3 in addition to the LGPLv2.1, GPLv3, and the
enterprise (proprietary) license. New modules will be dropping
LGPLv2.1 and GPLv3+ and be released under the LGPLv3 and GPLv2+
instead. This should be a good move: new Qt modules will be Apache
license compatible, LGPLv3 code can trivially be converted to GPLv3,
and Digia is even releasing a few modules it intended to make
proprietary as Free Software. The KDE Free Qt Foundation is on board.
The move was made because of device vendors exploiting a loophole in
the GPLv2/LGPLv2.1 that denied users the right to modify Qt or write
their own applications. Digia has some self-interest as well, since
those vendors were exploiting the tivoization loophole to avoid buying
enterprise licenses."
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/08/20/1446240
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
5 years, 9 months
