Not to mention not being able to play StarCraft II :\ On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Byron Como <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, I'm upgrade woozy. Two years ago I took the hard drive from my Linux > machine to put in a Windows machine when my 10,000 rpm WD Raptor got fried > by a lightning strike. I've never rebuilt the Linux machine. I run all open > source apps on Windows 7 64-bit. Linux is in a time of considerable > transition. Maintaining Nvidia accelerated drivers was annoying, having to > manually recompile every time a new version was released. Replacing X seems > to be dividing developers efforts. I never did feel comfortable with the new > sound system. Once all the development activity settles down, and I think > Linus will say something to the effect "Well, thats all done, thanks guys", > I'll go back to a Linux desktop. > > > On 6/10/2011 12:06 PM, Tim Fournet wrote: > >> CentOS is good if you don't want to upgrade twice a year. If you want >> to upgrade twice a year, Fedora is a good option. The new version >> (F15) is a bit of a shock to the system with a brand new init system >> and Gnome3 (gnome-shell) >> >> I'm really impressed with btrfs as well >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Joshua Frugé<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I love it. But my desktop progression through the years has been >>> WindowMaker->Fluxbox->LXDE. What I look for in a window manger and >>> desktop >>> isn't really the norm. :) >>> It's nothing special, default look of something like windows 95, but it's >>> lightweight, easy to configure, and gets what I want done (manage >>> windows, >>> give me a task bar, and an app menu). >>> Using a mac at the new job, it's very pretty and very annoying at the >>> same >>> time :) >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ronnie Gilkey<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't gotten to play with LXDE yet, is anyone currently using it? >>>> Thoughts? >>>> Ronnie >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Joshua Frugé<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Fedora 15 is pretty good if you want to stay "redhat ish". Go for the >>>>> lxde spin, if you don't like the new gnome stuff. >>>>> >>>>> I started running it when it was in beta on my laptop, and was very >>>>> impressed (compared to older versions of fedora). Easy setup, no real >>>>> driver issues, etc... >>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Ronnie Gilkey<[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I would go with Linux Mint for a desktop (http://www.linuxmint.com/), >>>>>> it's my flavor of choice for desktops. CentOS is just the community >>>>>> supported version of RHEL, which is really geared for server >>>>>> environments. >>>>>> I think Mint has a really well developed desktop environment it is >>>>>> _very_ >>>>>> user friendly. >>>>>> Ronnie >>>>>> >>>>>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Byron Como<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> How is CentOS as a desktop environment? I gave up on RedHat when they >>>>>>> went to a 13 month product lifecycle. And where is Lance Davis? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> General mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> General mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> General mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>>>> >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> General mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- "The world's my oyster, a hotel room's my prison cell..."
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