On 11/19/2017 9:54 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17 years, but from
what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
still on 5), and it's really strange that it's been 2 years in the
maki
I like to go with Fedora MATE spin as I find it resource friendly.
and I use compiz as my window manager to have a very robust features and
some eye candy features as well.
Fedora move fast and have a short release cycle (6 month),
so having to deal with new stuff each 6 month can be a burden for
Mint has dropped the KDE version.
What about arch?
On Nov 19, 2017 10:22, "Rabin Yasharzadehe" wrote:
> I like to go with Fedora MATE spin as I find it resource friendly.
> and I use compiz as my window manager to have a very robust features and
> some eye candy features as well.
>
> Fedora mov
Interesting info about Mint (and yes I checked - what you wrote is
accurate). I don't think politics and software should mix, but NO WAY
I'll even consider Mint now. :-)
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:18:47 +0200
Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
> Linux Mint was developed and maintained by a raving lunatic
>
I'm more of a Gnome user and haven't really played with KDE since the
days of KDE4 (I always felt it was very 'crowded'/'not calm' as
opposed to gnome 2 back then, though when I just started Linux that
was what I liked about KDE3 all the distractions) but:
- Are you sure what you heard about the n
On 11/19/2017 11:15 AM, E.S. Rosenberg wrote:
+ *buntu has the LTS long-release cycles and the standard 6 month
cycle, updating from version to version tends to be painless
The problem with Ubuntu's LTS, is as it gets older, they only do
security updates, so it really is no longer useful. Ev
Hi Shlomo!
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Shlomo Solomon
wrote:
> I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
>
> I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17 years, but from
> what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
> still on 5), and it's really strange tha
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Shay Gover wrote:
> Mint has dropped the KDE version.
>
> What about arch?
>
>
Regarding Arch Linux, see
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg65850.html .
> On Nov 19, 2017 10:22, "Rabin Yasharzadehe" wrote:
>
>> I like to go with Fedora MATE
Off-topic:
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 10:18:47AM +0200, Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
> On 11/19/2017 9:54 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
>
>
> > I've been thinking about Mint, Kubuntu or Fedora - any thoughts (or
> > additional options)?
>
> Linux Mint was developed and maintained by a raving lunatic ant
While we're off-topic and discussing misinformation, it's important to
note that being anti Israeli policies (military occupation of Palestine
in this case) is not being anti-semitic.
Some Zionists seem to be confused about the fact that it's possible to
hold strong opinions against immoral and un
Hi all!
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Yuval Adam <_...@yuv.al> wrote:
> While we're off-topic and discussing misinformation, it's important to
> note that being anti Israeli policies (military occupation of Palestine
> in this case) is not being anti-semitic.
>
> Some Zionists seem to be confu
On 11/19/2017 4:15 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
just wanted to note that I agree in principle. Not every criticism of
certain Israeli policies is anti-Semitic. I've written about it in the
past here -
http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/politics/define-zionism/ .
so do I, in fact, I think it is
On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 09:54:42AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
>
> I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17 years, but from
> what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
> still on 5), and it's really strange that it
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 09:54:42 +0200
Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I don't want to start a Distro war, but ...
>
> I've been on Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia for over 17 years, but from
> what I've read, there are quite a few problems with Mageia 6 (I'm
> still on 5), and it's really strange that it's be
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:18:47 +0200
Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
> Linux Mint was developed and maintained by a raving lunatic
> anti-semite. He demanded that his work had nothing to do with the IDF
> because it violently oppresses the Palestinian people. That is
> impossible, because many of the ma
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 18:15:37 +0200
Geoffrey Mendelson wrote:
[very offtopic]
> As for moving on, I have, on to another less political distro.
>
> Geoff.
I was in the process of converting all my and my family's computers to
Mint when I heard about Clem's litmus test. I switched to Ubuntu,
causi
I don't see an issue in clem's views, as long that it stays off the
community's ground.
His apology for mixing open source with politics is here:
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=775
I have no idea if this will fuel or calm things, but there is an archived
talk sub-page on wikipedia on the subject:
h
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