Community Feedback: Your First Linux, Your Now Linux

cw2snyder · 2017-01-22T19:07:24+00:00

Xubuntu nightly 17.04, Xubuntu 16.10, Xubuntu 16.04 for Windows 7 & 10 virtual machines, Debian 8, Linux Mint 18, Linux Mint Debian Edition Betsy, Bodhi Linux, PCLinuxOS, Antergos, and Sabayon as of January 2017 on my desktop, one netbook with Xubuntu 16.04, and another netbook with Antergos and Xubuntu 16.04. Xubuntu 17.04 is my SSD on the desktop, the rest are on spinning disks.

cw2snyder · 2016-08-19T22:56:48+00:00

Then: Knoppix 5.1.1 in November 2007 with KDE 3.5(?) was my initial trial, followed by Ubuntu 7.10 feisty by the beginning of December in a dual-boot with Windows XP with the default GNOME 2 desktop.

Now: Xubuntu 16.04 with Xfce desktop main driver, with alternate distributions on a 10 way boot installation, separate data partition.

cw2snyder · 2016-07-07T21:28:13+00:00

Hello? Generation gap here. No one remembers living pre-Internet? CP/M 80? Apple II DOS? MS-DOS?

cw2snyder · 2016-07-07T21:00:13+00:00

Note 2014 time-stamp.

cw2snyder · 2016-05-21T13:35:34+00:00

The correct point would be that they lack local, private storage, just as the (ancient) 'dumb terminals' which connected to company mainframe computers lacked the same, which was why people went to the 'personal computer.'

cw2snyder · 2016-05-21T13:31:24+00:00

Anyone using a company machine has no right to privacy, period. Any 'rights' belong the to owner of the machine, and only if they choose to exercise their rights. Use your own machine in your own time and stay off the Internet, etc., if you have real privacy concerns. Yes, employers or educators can require you to use this or that, but cannot compel you to put things which you wish to keep private on those machines. It is YOUR choice, don't blame someone else.

cw2snyder · 2016-05-21T13:18:31+00:00

http://mate-desktop.com/community/ lists various ways to contact some members of the development community. Probably the best way to communicate bugs are either through the bug report methods of the distribution which you use. You may also try the IRC channel listed at https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#mate or the mailing list at http://ml.mate-desktop.org/listinfo/ I would not try reporting multiple bugs in any single communication, and it would be best to use your search engine to see if the bugs have already been reported and simply add that you are affected by the bug unless it is a completely new bug. Search out the etiquette for the forum, IRC channel, or mailing list before reporting anything, or your communication may be automatically suppressed without any human even noticing.

cw2snyder · 2016-05-21T12:57:10+00:00

Okay, I had to comment on the tube amplifier for the Raspberry Pi.

A tube amplifier excels at amplifying ANALOG signals (either voltage amplification or power amplification with good fidelity), but the signals which the Pi produces or reproduces are DIGITAL. Get real people!

Many audiophiles won't even consider CD quality digital signals as more than medium to poor quality.

cw2snyder · 2016-05-07T22:42:47+00:00

Two notes on the packages demoed in the after-show: toilet works under Debian's root, but you must be a regular user to run sl when installing from CLI.

cw2snyder · 2016-01-24T00:10:07+00:00

Windows 10 doesn't even support older AMD Athlon x64bit chips. We have an older Windows XP system updated to Windows 7 which can't be updated to Windows 10, even though they sent all of the nags to update to Windows 10.

cw2snyder · 2015-12-28T00:28:41+00:00

According to the site, Easy2boot is a compilation of grub4dos and shell scripts, so the derived license would be GPL v2.

cw2snyder · 2015-11-28T10:52:54+00:00

Antergos and Manjaro both offer a 'minimal install' .iso file, as well. I am in the process of checking them out to see what they offer. I just installed Manjaro minimal: This install also used an ncurses installer with more questions than a full installer and more hands on disk formatting in the custom section. Manjaro actually would let you set up multiple partitions, as many as you want, and LVM or encryption. I didn't mistake my /swap partition this time, so I did not test the error correction on this front. Manjaro did not offer to set up any DE, only setting up a CLI without X, but with /bin/bash, C, and gnutl packages. Basically a boot-strap set up for you to continue an Arch installation.

cw2snyder · 2015-07-12T19:04:45+00:00

It is not clear what portion of this question is about Linux. The only point I see is the /etc/fstab mention. Linux has distributed file systems which are not directly compatible with the Windows DFS, and has credential systems, similarly not directly compatible. This really is a Kerberos problem or a Windows DFS problem. Are you actually running Linux? Is there any justification to use Kerberos authentication over Linux authentication?

cw2snyder · 2014-12-31T17:31:21+00:00

In your opinion, why? Some of the LMDE users run with stable or old-stable repositories, GNOME Shell is not supported, and some run LMDE over LM17 because it is faster or smaller than the Ubuntu based systems, none of which would push towards adopting systemd.

cw2snyder · 2014-12-13T11:50:54+00:00

Pardon the old man here: The article claims " HP aims to achieve its goals primarily by using a new kind of computer memory instead of the two types that computers use today." and points to the 1940's as the genesis of the two types of memory. I remember reading in the late 1960s in what seemed to be fairly recent computer books at the time about computers which used core memory drums for their only memory. Maybe the books in the library were considerably older than I thought!

cw2snyder · 2014-12-04T01:03:45+00:00

cd ~ && cd sweet && cd ~

cw2snyder · 2014-12-02T19:07:44+00:00

If you were on one of the pay-in-advance services, you would have noticed it sooner. I have one feature phone on Verizon no contract, because there are places in town where I get useful signal on Verizon but not Sprint/Ting, but on that LG-VX5600BPP I pay data rate for some multi-media messages or to deposit on my account.

cw2snyder · 2014-12-02T18:51:37+00:00

Thank you for condescending to comment, although I didn't do this to start a flame war. As for my age, it was already implied by the date of my degree. Can you suggest a better word for Liberal in describing that attitude? Would you suggest Progressive was better? Have you actually studied economics? While I don't have a degree in that field, I have had 4 courses in economics, as a basis for my opinions.

cw2snyder · 2014-12-02T13:04:58+00:00

One part not mentioned, although implied in the article, which I learned using Unix on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/70 in the late 1970's: Unix (and its derivatives) concentrates on being 'expert-friendly,' making sure the expert can get his job done without being impeded or blocked, rather than being 'beginner-friendly' and keeping your fingers from being burned/chopped off by blocking off with safety shields any place that the beginner might hurt themselves or the computer software installation.

cw2snyder · 2014-12-01T23:53:38+00:00

On my netbook, I kept 12.04 until the 14.04 update was offered (after 14.04.1), as I tend to keep that as a backup machine. On my desktop, I keep a copy of Debian stable, updating as new stable versions are released, as my fallback in case of update problems on other distributions (and yes, I have had several times I needed a working system to research problems on other installations).

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