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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.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