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On 03/26/2012 08:44 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say "it sucks";
I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick
look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I would
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say "it sucks";
I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick
look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it to
anyone, especially with h
On 03/26/2012 12:50 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 03/25/2012 03:13 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
:D as I said "heaping spoonfuls of salt"
Also applies to all my opinionated advice, highly biased - and
definitely not representative of anyone else's experience - no matter
how much I try to make i
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
> As a Mac-o-philiac I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
> and can honestly say "it sucks";
>
> it being neither one thing nor the other.
>
> Richmond Mathewson.
I am an advocate for simplicity when it comes to choosing a familiar O
On 03/25/2012 03:13 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
:D as I said "heaping spoonfuls of salt"
Also applies to all my opinionated advice, highly biased - and
definitely not representative of anyone else's experience - no matter
how much I try to make it appear otherwise ;)
Warren
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On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:
As a Mac-o-philiac I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say "it sucks";
it being neither one thing nor the other.
Also, for Mac types; the initial set up does NOT have desktop icons,
and it is a right cough-cough-cough findi
As a Mac-o-philiac I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say "it sucks";
it being neither one thing nor the other.
Also, for Mac types; the initial set up does NOT have desktop icons,
and it is a right cough-cough-cough finding one's Home folder and so on.
The eye-
I am also a big fan of Parallels, especially now they seem to have sorted out
access to the Mac's printers. Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on my iMac,
running Parallels on top of Lion - this was in addition to XP rather than a
replacement, since I need both for testing purposes - and it was ast
Thanks Richmond and Warren for the info. I like the idea of using a Linux
distro that is somewhat like an OS X interface.
Pete
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> So now I'm left with the question of which Linux
>> distro to go for..
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote:
So now I'm left with the question of which Linux
distro to go for
Pete
More ideas that might interest you :)
Since you are mainly working in OS X and I assume you are happy and
comfortable working in that interface, you may be interested in a linux
Another thing you might like to think about is running a Linux distro
on a second hard-disk or partition in a PC running Windows.
If at all possible go for the second hard drive option; I have managed
to muck
a lot of things up trying to go the second partition route.
Some Linux distros are ve
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote:
you can find downloadable, ready to go virtual
machine disk images of almost any Linux distro, in current and
older versions.
Here are some links to preconfigured virtual disk images.
http://virtualboxes.org/images/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtu
On 03/24/2012 09:44 PM, Roger Eller wrote:
The easiest way for a beginner is a WUBI installation. You don't need an
emulator or virtual box or parallels, etc. Just a PC that is already
running Windows. When you install Ubuntu via WUBI, it is just a series of
folders on the hard-drive (no dedic
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Pete wrote:
>
> I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps
> I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like
> Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their
> computers. Can I in
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote:
So now I'm left with the question of which Linux
distro to go for
FWIW:
http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/poll/1202084/
http://enigmacommunity.org/forums/topic/1099-whats-your-favorite-linux-desktop-environment/
http://www.muktware.com/survey/3444/poll
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote:
the VM approach solves
the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux
distro to go for
Pete
Since you can test them so easily, I would suggest firstly not to be too
anxious about making the "best" decision. You don't have to dec
Thanks for all the info Richard. I'm already feeling SO superior to all
those morons who don't run Ubuntu!
I will probably try out VirtualBox since it's free and probably also a dual
boot on my Windows 7 box since the only thing I ever do on Windows is test
out LC apps developed on my Mac, althou
Thanks Warren. As you and Jacque both pointed out the VM approach solves
the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux
distro to go for
Pete
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote:
>
>> I already have a Windows la
Thanks for the reminder Jacque. I had some not-so-grat experiences a few
years back running emulators on a Mac so that's coloring my opinion, but
they've probably improved a lot since then.
Pete
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 3/24/12 5:48 PM, Pete wrote:
>
> I alrea
Pete wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering
> getting a computer to run Linux.
...
> But where do I buy a computer that runs Linux and what version of
> Linux (if that's the right term) I need?
Every distro has its fans, some quite passionate. Ther
On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote:
I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps
I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like
Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their
computers. Can I install Linux on my
On 3/24/12 5:48 PM, Pete wrote:
I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps
I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like
Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their
computers. Can I install Linux on my Wi
Hi Richard,
This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering getting a
computer to run Linux. The problem I'm having is illustrated by the
snippet from your post below.
I'm a computer savvy person and worked with them most of my working life
but I know nothing about Linux and really
Alejandro Tejada wrote:
What did I saw in Linux, that according to my opinion would make it
a success? That all Developers were colaborating toward a common goal,
instead of competing against each other... As simple like that.
I used to feel the same way, quite passionately so. I think my ear
erosity of Business, Goverments and
Professional developers
to fund their projects.
Al
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On 03/23/2012 10:37 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
"Me, I have moved to Fluxbox, because it gets out of the way and stays
out. Everyone I support will be moving to xfce over the next few months.
With any luck, they will not notice its not Gnome2!
Since XFCE allowed transparencies and ic
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote
Like Tim noted, any user of any current major distro who prefers Gnome 2
can install it and use it. Ubuntu goes so far as to make this a
one-click option at login.
Richard, I wish that were true, I would simply do it. But its vanishing
from th
deliver that
vision is in fact less usability for a substantial proportion of users. And
it has happened not only to gnome, but to kde as well.
Peter
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Like Tim noted, any user of any current major distro who prefers Gnome 2
can install it and use it. Ubuntu goes so far as to make this a
one-click option at login.
And it's Linux: there are more than a hundred distros to choose from,
most of them almost infinitely configurable, so any Linux
All very good points, Peter. I am also an XFCE and OpenWindows (OLVWM in Linux
speak) fan. One important distinction to keep in mind here - GNOME is not GTK
as KDE is not QT. So long as developers keep that in mind when creating
software, the desktop paradigm should not be a concern in delive
The first link is to a comprehensive review of Gnome 3, the whole thing being
worth reading, but which culminates in the following:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fedora-16-gnome-3-review,3155-16.html
The implications for the Gnome-Ubuntu usability project are quite devastating.
Basically
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