[libre-riscv-dev] Hi, I am new and like to work, contribute to this project

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 1:16 PM Veera <vklr at vkten.in> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 09:48:42AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 15, 2020, Veera <vklr at vkten.in> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:39:14AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
> > > wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, February 15, 2020, Veera <vklr at vkten.in> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > really it is the exim4 modifications to how to interface to mailman in
> > > > Maildir mode.
> > > >
> > > > i do not do local email so if the entire exim4 config is switched to
> > > > Maildir that is fine
> > >
> > > I have Debian 10 buster setup locally. Which distribution and version our
> > > host
> > > is using?
> >
> >
> > a rolling release continuously updated.
> >
>
> Is it a Linux based? Is it a custom one made by you?

debian.  i do continuous "apt-get update" and "apt-get install xxxx".
i never do a "replacement of the entire OS", and i never do "apt-get
dist-upgrade".

> Why are you asking me to do the test setup in Debian?

because the host OS is debian(/testing)

> Will you port to the host OS?

yes.

> Is it okay if do the test setup in Debian 10 Buster setup?

yes

> >
> > >
> > > Well, system administrators should know all popular variants. But there is
> > > also
> > > a philosophy of requiring only secure and best soultions and not to have
> > > to know
> > > and use all that is available.
> > >
> > > But that's not a hard rule.
> >
> >
> > typically but not always, take the stupidity of both php and systemd as
> > classic counterexamples, popularity tends to result in more bugs being
> > found.
> >
> > the counterexamples show that if the developers have pathological
> > psychological issue (such as lennart pottering regularly closing critical
> > security bugs as WONTFIX) you cannot make that assumption.
> >
>
> Some were unhappy Redhat taking the systemd route and then others also
> followed. Debian fork Devuan was created which apparently has stalled.

yyep.  if they had actually put, "we are inclusive of every init
system" and that *includes* systemd they would not be viewed as
hypocritical, as "against" systemd.

the anger "against" systemd can only take you so far.

> Even Linus Torvalds was angry with Lennart about udev integration with
> systemd. And udev fork Eudev was made.
>
> > the BSDs go for much better security however their lack of popularity has a
> > flip side: lack of convenience, less diversity, less recipes, less
> > documentation.
> >
>
> Yes.
> In terms of security OpenBSD is the best, better than Linux.
>
> Also can I change the subject line to something better for this thread?

let's use http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181

i will email you the bugzilla password shortly.

l.