Re: [gentoo-amd64] Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things...

[B Vance]

On Sun, 2014-03-02 at 10:58 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> >> Thanks Rich. The picture is getting clearer and other than getting my
> >> backup SSD installation up to date it's good to know there's no
> >> difficult requirements for me to deal with at this time. Being that I
> >> have been (for the last 5-6 years anyway) a 'stable' Gentoo user it's
> >> to my advantage if things stay basically the same over time.
> >>
> >> After your and Canek's responses it's clear that within my framework I
> >> won't be moving to eudev or mdev. The only systemd question I might
> >> need to answer going forward is for my dad's machine. He's got 15
> >> years of email traffic in Evolution and I've not investigated running
> >> Evolution in any desktop environment other than Gnome. There's no way
> >> at this point to move him away from Evolution so I just need to figure
> >> out over time (the next year maybe) how to best deal with that.
> >
> > Please don't top post.
> >
>
> Sorry. I seldom do that and don't know why I did that time.
>
> > I've been using Evolution for more than 10 years, always with GNOME,
> > but I'm pretty sure you can run it in every other DE.
> >
>
> Probably true. The bar I need to hurdle, probably not much of a jump,
> would be getting any new DE to simply look enough like what he
> currently has in Gnome 2. I suspect that XFCE with identical wallpaper
> and a little thought about placing the right app-start icons on the
> desktop would be enough to give me 'plausible deniability' about
> whatever changes I actually made under the hood.
>
> Leaving out the issue of password changes I hope few folks have to
> deal with the phone call where, after 10 years of no changes, a loved
> one calls you and asks "What is this screen that is asking for my User
> Name and Password want me to do? I don't remember..." I am so thankful
> for both the remote administration capabilities of Linux and the
> security model/lack of viruses. I cannot imagine how painful my life
> would be today if he was still using Windows living 350 miles away.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>

I'm currently running Evolution on KDE 4.x so it will work fine with
other DE then Gnome.

Choice is the spice of life.

B