Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-20 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 18:48 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 06/20/2011 06:35 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year > >> olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-20 Thread Andrew Haley
On 06/20/2011 06:35 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year >> olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, > >> English is not my native language :) >> >> In a lo

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-20 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:20 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year > olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, > > English is not my native language :) > > In a local restaurant, there is an old advertisement poster fo

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-20 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, June 19, 2011 10:58:28 AM Fernando Cassia wrote: > 73 year olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, > English is not my native language :) In a local restaurant, there is an old advertisement poster for men's boxer shorts, and in quotes the word 'coolness.' My o

Re: Another 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Misha Shnurapet
20.06.2011, 10:48, "Roger" : > Hijacking this thread but in the same vein. > > My daughter is first year IT and media teacher at a private school. > She warned her students that her computer looked different because she > used Linux Ubuntu 10.04. > The students were impressed and fed up with proble

Another 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Roger
Hijacking this thread but in the same vein. My daughter is first year IT and media teacher at a private school. She warned her students that her computer looked different because she used Linux Ubuntu 10.04. The students were impressed and fed up with problems of their current operating system.

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 13:16 -0400, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 06/19/2011 01:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 06/19/2011 09:33 AM, Tim wrote: > >> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:58 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > >>> I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, English is not my native > >>> language :) > >>

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2011 12:03 PM, Gary Waters wrote: >Hasn't worked with my wife, kid, or business partner. De gustabus non disputatum est. If that's what they're comfortable with, if using Winderz makes them happy, why should they change? Of course, my sister was happy with Windoze, but she was als

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2011 11:55 AM, JD wrote: > Will upgrade to 15 when 16 is released. Right now, I'm seriously considering skipping 15 and going from 14 right to 16. Unless the complaints about it both here and on fedoraforum.org drop drastically, that is. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Rikke D. Giles
On 06/19/2011 05:36:21 AM, Gary Waters wrote: > I downloaded the 32-bit Fedora 15 XFCE live cd, ran it, noticed there > were no oscillating yellow lines going down the LCD screen and > installed to hard drive. There is a God! My 75 year old mother loves > it! Years ago, I watched Revolution

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Gary Waters
On 06/19/2011 01:34 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/19/2011 10:22 AM, Gary Waters wrote: >> Strangely enough, I believe she was easy to convert to Linux so easily >> because she had not spent YEARS using windows. I noticed she's spending >> a lot of time in the "games" section. I made sure enough goodi

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread JD
On 06/19/2011 08:03 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: > I've been a satisfied Linux user since the days when you had to install > it from a set of floppy disks because CDs hadn't been invented yet. > > I generally run one release back from the bleeding edge. Now that F15 > is out I'm running F14. That way

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2011 10:22 AM, Gary Waters wrote: > Strangely enough, I believe she was easy to convert to Linux so easily > because she had not spent YEARS using windows. I noticed she's spending > a lot of time in the "games" section. I made sure enough goodies were > check-marked. :-) My (older) siste

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Genes MailLists
On 06/19/2011 01:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 06/19/2011 09:33 AM, Tim wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:58 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: >>> I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, English is not my native >>> language :) >> >> I always thought 1960s... Though I'm probably late, too. Any time

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Gary Waters
On 06/19/2011 11:55 AM, Jayson Rowe wrote: >> I downloaded the XFCE 64-bit live CD and >> installed to my notebook. It is very decent indeed. >> >> I just wanted to post something other than "doom&gloom" for a change. ;-) >> >> GW > > Awesome story! I never tried the gOS disto, but I'm glad she's d

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Gary Waters
On 06/19/2011 10:58 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:36, Gary Waters > wrote: > > I > let her take a look at gnome 3 on my computer and she went "how cool." > > > 73 year olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (s

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2011 09:33 AM, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:58 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, English is not my native >> language :) > > I always thought 1960s... Though I'm probably late, too. Any time I > here someone say "cool," I always think of

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 11:58 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, English is not my native > language :) I always thought 1960s... Though I'm probably late, too. Any time I here someone say "cool," I always think of The Fonz, from the Happy Days tv series. ;

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Misha Shnurapet
19.06.2011, 21:36, "Gary Waters" : > The gOS kiddie linux ( yes, I know I'm gonna get hell for that ) based > on ubuntu 8.4 which was installed on my mother's laptop, gagged on some > update which came in and crashed the x-server. I was already fed up > about listening to complaints about poor perf

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Jayson Rowe
> I downloaded the XFCE 64-bit live CD and > installed to my notebook. It is very decent indeed. > > I just wanted to post something other than "doom&gloom" for a change. ;-) > > GW Awesome story! I never tried the gOS disto, but I'm glad she's digging Fedora. "How Cool" was my reaction to GNOME 3

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 06/19/2011 08:36 AM, Gary Waters wrote: > The gOS kiddie linux ( yes, I know I'm gonna get hell for that ) based > on ubuntu 8.4 which was installed on my mother's laptop, gagged on some > update which came in and crashed the x-server. I was already fed up > about listening to complaints about p

Re: 5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 09:36, Gary Waters wrote: > I > let her take a look at gnome 3 on my computer and she went "how cool." > 73 year olds say "how cool"? I thought ´cool´ was a 1980s thing (sorry, English is not my native language :) I thought that by that age (no pun intended) one gets clos

5-star Fedora experience

2011-06-19 Thread Gary Waters
The gOS kiddie linux ( yes, I know I'm gonna get hell for that ) based on ubuntu 8.4 which was installed on my mother's laptop, gagged on some update which came in and crashed the x-server. I was already fed up about listening to complaints about poor performance, pidgin certificate error messa