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On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:43 PM, Julie Marchant onpon4@riseup.net wrote:
And this is especially bad considering that of all the distros you offered, Debian is the most user-friendly, if you distribute *stable, stock* Debian. That was the only reason why I ordered some Debian cards.
if you misunderstood and believed that you were buying a product, that you were placing an order, as opposed to helping reach the goal of bringing ethically-developed eco-conscious computing devices to mass-volume, then on the basis that i can only accept money from people who are 100% happy with the service that i am providing i am obligated, even though the components have been ordered from the factory, to offer you the opportunity to have your money returned to you. 100% integrity is *that* important to me, it takes *absolute* precedence.
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Knowing that you are not delivering what I want to be on the card that I'm going to give to my mother, I see now that this was completely pointless. I'm going to have to do all of the work to make sure she has a system she can use properly because you refuse to cooperate just by delivering the current, stable, stock Debian.
it's actually very simple to do (i wish it was as easy as using debian-installer): either find someone else's rootfs and literally just drop it onto the microsd card, or, if you cannot trust random arbitrary downloads from the internet of 4 gigabytes in size, look up debian qemu or debootstrap foreign architectures (which use qemu in headless mode i believe to run the final pre-preparation steps), and the job's pretty much done in under an hour.
... ah! here you are: https://wiki.debian.org/EmDebian/CrossDebootstrap#QEMU.2Fdebootstrap_approac...
it's really amazingly straightforward.
This is not something that personally affects me very much; I should be able to figure out how to install Debian on my own, and I was planning to do so anyway.
great. it would be very helpful if you could document that process, so that others can benefit and also help you out.
But you are making it needlessly difficult for your project to succeed by taking this zealous hardline stance against systemd;
julie: i'm sleeping for about 12 to 14 hours a day, i've some sort of virus that's affected my health for over 25 years and is increasing in its virulence, i haven't the *time* or energy to be zealous.
it's much simpler than you imagine it to be, and it's down to a pathological systemic flaw in the way that software libre is developed (as a world-wide community). i'm deeply disturbed by the way in which systemd has been developed and deployed: it's unethical in ways that go beyond acceptable boundaries which the actual *software license* simply doesn't cover. i haven't the time or energy to spend on it, and its unethical development and deployment is not something i can endorse or distribute to people who are trusting me to deliver them ethically-developed hardware *and software*.
i don't expect everyone to understand that.
l.