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normal, in this case, sddm decided that using a .pid or .lock file in /run was too easy so they changed to some session id type string in the /run/sddm/ directory. Speaking for myself, I find such pointless changes from anything resembling normal behaviors to the reason that gnu freedesktop systems will never achieve significant desktop use globally. Also, in the same vein, added debuggers to try to figure out what plasma5/kde 5 is using internally to give command line version information. Again, something pointless internally was changed, thus breaking something that had faintly resembled an api, which is of course why desktop gnu linux will never actually take off, developers in the real world have no interest in chasing after such pointless and never ending churn in even the most trivial areas of the OS, let alone the core. inxi remains however as a log of this ongoing churn and lack of discipline, and so remains an interesting process of observation, and a way for users to try to avoid the constant changes in simple system queries that should really never change, so I can see a reason to keep it going since it's obvious that the actual foss ecosystem itself will not and apparently cannot grasp that it is the lack of stable apis, methods, etc, that has kept desktop gnu linux from achieving any actual real world success or popularity, and that is the actual problem that should be fixed, not some pointless internal change to something. On the source repo front, maintainers, I still can't find an acceptable alternative to the impending shutdown of googlecode. github is a for profit venture that people who seem totally void of any sense of history believe is actually going to be around longer than say, sourceforge, or googlecode, as a legitimate source hosting site. I'd welcome any suggestions. So far all the options are bad that I can find. Top preference is svn, but if git is the absolute only other choice for an otherwise good option, I'd consider git, but it's a horrible option for inxi because of how inxi development and debugging works, vs how git works. ie, svn branches are perfect, git branches are totally wrong. I may end up just hosting the svn on my own servers to avoid having to move yet again when the next for profit flakey site decides to close up or monetize the source hosting. The original idea of googlecode was for google to 'pay its dues to the foss community', but apparently they got bored with that idea, plus of course, the ongoing total failure of google to deal with automated spam, which has always been a huge bug in the core google corporate culture. But googlecode was by far the best option I've come across, it was done by a deep pocketed corporation not for profit for pretty good reasons, and was never intended to be a profit center, which is the closest I could see for a non free option. Setting up svn gui stuff however is a royal pain and requires ongoing maintainance for the life of the software, which is NOT fun, nor will I sign up for that obligation. I may end up moving to github anyway, even though git truly sucks for inxi and myself, but it's an idea I find fairly vile, apparently free software (sic) authors seem to have no grasp of the concept of fredom when it comes to source code hosting, judging by the absurd popularity of github as the default go to source repo. Their website is pathetic as well, which isn't very promising. So we'll see where it goes, I think I have until august to decide what to do for source hosting. Since I'm old enough to have seen sourceforge and now googlecode do the same thing, along with a lot of other options, to say github won't do this too is delusional, what you can almost certainly say is it will do it, the only question is when. But, just as Linus did with his non free linux kernel version control, people will stick with the non free stuff until you realize you can't use it anymore, because it is non free. Free software hosted on non free source repos is to me one of the most absurd and stupid things I've ever heard of to be honest. |
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