Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 12 May 2020 09:44:34 +0300 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Geoffrey! > > Please see > https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and > let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all. Well, speaking only for myself, in 2009 I erased Mint from all my computers and

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:49 PM Dimid Duchovny wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking to buy a desktop computer with Linux pre-installed for a couple > of senior citizens. I'd usually buy a generic PC and install myself, but now > due to the coronavirus that's not an option. > The main uses are web

Re: Gmail and Claws

2020-05-12 Thread Yedidyah Bar David
Not directly related, but I'd like to also point out, as no-one mentioned this yet: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/12/less-secure-apps-oauth-google-username-password-incorrect.html TL;DR: they are stopping Less-Secure-Apps support in June. Blog post talks about "G Suite", so perhaps

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Geoffrey, On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:51 PM Geoffrey Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and reading > the link. > > It was your telling me not to talk about how RMS said as president of the > FSF that he was going to

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
i went to the trouble of signing into one of my linux servers and reading the link. It was your telling me not to talk about how RMS said as president of the FSF that he was going to honor the Palestinian boycott of Israel. It had nothing to do with linux mint. Totally irrelevant. Geoff. As

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
I have now tested all three links using chromium-browser and the "lynx" browser on fedora and they all open fine in both browsers (as well as firefox). Something is broken on your end, and I have no control on proprietary browsers. On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:16 AM Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > On

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM Geoffrey Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > The link wont open. I tried chrome and safari. > > Which link? There were several in my original email. For the record, they all open fine in firefox on fedora 32 x64. Regarding Safari, see

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
Here is a good place to start. https://abriefhistory.org/?p=774 Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On May 12, 2020, 9:44 AM +0300, Shlomi Fish , wrote: > Hi Geoffrey! > > Please see https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html >

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
The link wont open. I tried chrome and safari. Why not do some actual reasearch and look up the request that no one affiliated with the IDF use Linux Mint due to their trearment of the palestinians? Or his sorry, I pissed of the people that rule the world appology? Dont take my word for it,

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Geoffrey! Please see https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il/msg66441.html and let's drop the "antisemitism" argument once and for all. That put aside there are other distributions that should hopefully be able to recognise and utilise most commodity hardware: *

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Shay Gover
So don't use microphones either. Or just use it and see them explode. :) On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 9:00 AM Geoffrey Mendelson < geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint. > > Geoff > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel > On

Re: Where to buy a Linux based desktop in Israel?

2020-05-12 Thread Geoffrey Mendelson
Support antisemitism. Use Linux Mint. Geoff -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379 Jerusalem, Israel On May 12, 2020, 3:09 AM +0300, Shay Gover , wrote: > Why not install yourself? use mint distro. > > > On Mon, May 11, 2020, 22:49 Dimid Duchovny wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > >