... From: "thad_floryan" <thad@...> To: <linux@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 11:48 PM Subject: [linux] Virtualization? Nah. How to...
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thad_floryan
Sep 14, 2011 4:05 pm
" We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS " 5.7 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.7 is based on the " upstream release EL 5.7...
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Dale Miller
kc2cbd
Sep 15, 2011 6:31 pm
I'm fowarding from the ubuntulinux yahoo group. In Ubuntu 11.10 you can still install the gnome panel and run something similar to Classic Gnome instead of...
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emtboy9
Sep 15, 2011 6:58 pm
Just for the record, I have nothing to do with any of that ;-) FWIW, I use Unity daily and it works rather well, is very keyboard oriented and honestly, after...
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Dale Miller
kc2cbd
Sep 15, 2011 7:04 pm
... Well Jeff I haven't tried it yet... But from the screenshots I don't like the look cause I prefer a clean desktop. I don't have any icons on my desktop...
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J
emtboy9
Sep 15, 2011 7:33 pm
... The only way to get cleaner is to run XFCE or BusyBox or something like that. Unity has one panel at the top that that holds controls and indicators. The...
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Scott
catbit_1999
Sep 15, 2011 8:05 pm
... For what it's worth, last time I tried, which was, admittedly, a little while ago, it just wouldn't boot after I installed VBox Tools, I then had to get...
Just received an email today from ATSPI_Outreach@...: " A new version of LPS (1.2.4) has been released and is accessible " via the web...
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thad_floryan
Sep 28, 2011 12:19 am
I received an email from ATSPI_Outreach@... a moment ago: " A new version of LPS (1.2.5) has been released and is accessible " via the web...
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thad_floryan
Oct 7, 2011 12:28 am
In the San Francisco Chronicle, the newspaper of Silicon Valley: ...
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ed
psy80uk
Oct 13, 2011 1:23 pm
... Hash: SHA1 Not the best week. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis_ritchie/ - -- Best regards, Ed http://www.s5h.net/ ... Version: GnuPG v1.4.9...
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Robert C Wittig
wittig.rober...
Oct 13, 2011 2:23 pm
... Yep, picked this up on FB early this AM RIP, Dennis... -- http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ ....
... Good Grief! :) I've been basically a 'one trick pony', working with Red Hat/CentOS (and BSD/UNIX on servers) since the early days of Linux. ...and of...
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thad_floryan
Oct 14, 2011 10:31 am
... Hah hah! You ain't seen nothing. Though I check DistroWatch daily (along with The Daily WTF, XKCD and Abstruse Goose), I see so many variants of Ubuntu...
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Scott
catbit_1999
Oct 14, 2011 10:42 am
... Well, much of it is what you would get if RH released one version for say, Gnome, and one for KDE. Fedora seems to be heading in this direction actually,...
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roro
roro@...
Oct 14, 2011 2:56 pm
one warning - if you prefer a gnome environment, don't "upgrade" to 11.10! my roomie has long since used a classic gnome environment, with metacity and gnome...
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Robert C Wittig
wittig.rober...
Oct 14, 2011 3:52 pm
... I visit XKCD every so often, usually when someone posts a good on on Facebook, and I get temporarily stuck in a 'joke loop'. :) ... Yeah, 1180 days uptime...
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Robert C Wittig
wittig.rober...
Oct 14, 2011 4:00 pm
... Good! I will feel pretty much at home then. I am primarily interested in the tools Scientific Linux deploys. ... Good again! I will feel pretty much at...
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Robert C Wittig
wittig.rober...
Oct 14, 2011 4:12 pm
Oops! No attachments on linux... http://www.robertwittig.net/temp/Screenshot.jpg ...and, another, older shot of my CentOS Desktop, before it got all cluttered...
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thad_floryan
Oct 14, 2011 11:25 pm
... And this will please you, too: supported for six (6) years. None of the garbage thinking of every 6 months a new buggy release like some distros....
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thad_floryan
Oct 14, 2011 11:50 pm
... What I'm reading in Usenet's Ubuntu newsgroup shows everyone's: 1. reverting to 10.04 LTS 2. going to Mint, 3. abandoning Ubuntu and going to other...
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Alexandru Fira
firaalexandru
Oct 15, 2011 1:37 pm
That is right. For example, I have serious graphics problems with Unity, problems which I never had with anything else. In one evening I had to REISUB 6...
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kd_skald
Oct 16, 2011 2:12 am
I used Ubuntu 11.04 for about 2 mos trying to get used to Unity and finally decided it was fine for just surfing the web, and that is about it. I tried out...
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thad_floryan
Oct 18, 2011 9:00 am
In the alt.os.linux.ubuntu Usenet group a few minutes one of the most well-known posters made an interesting comment that Unity feels quite a bit slower than...
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Alexandru Fira
firaalexandru
Oct 18, 2011 2:35 pm
... From: thad_floryan <thad@...> Subject: [linux] Interesting comment on Usenet: Unity slower than XP To: linux@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday,...
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c beck
usabecker
Oct 18, 2011 2:58 pm
... Yes, this going grey then crashing has actually been a recurring theme on the Ubuntu Linux Yahoo mailing list for a few users since 10.04. Since updating...
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emtboy9
Oct 18, 2011 3:14 pm
... The 7.9GB disk kinda bothers me as well... Either that's an 8GB partition, which may be ok, but if it's one of the 8GB SSDs that came in many of those...
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thad_floryan
Oct 20, 2011 1:43 am
DistroWatch had another one of their "specials"; in which one Fecebooks one's life away to get a free book. Forget that, get it by direct download here: ...
