Dennis wrote: > LnrB wrote: >> regz91 wrote: >>> Trane Francks wrote: >>>> On 12/1/13 3:32 PM +0900, regz91 wrote: >>>>> LnrB wrote: >>>>>> WaltS wrote: >>>>>>> sean nathan wrote: >>>>>>>> Stéphane Grégoire wrote, On 11/30/2013 06:10 AM: >>>>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Ed Mullen a tapoté, le 27/11/2013 08:33: >>>>>>>>>> What theme do you use? Default? Modern? Or some add-on? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> <https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/seamonkey/addon/debian-simple/> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've mostly never understood why folks spend so much time on >>>>>>>> personas/themes etc... As long as everything works I'm happy. Also >>>>>>> every >>>>>>>> time someone mentions a theme, I'm usually confronted with "This >>>>>>> theme >>>>>>>> not available for Seamonkey 2.whatever ... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> This simple grey installed fine, everything works satisfactorily, but >>>>>>>> I'm wondering why there's a giant swirly in the upper right corner? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It is the Debian logo, and part of the theme design. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <http://www.debian.org/> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> I had that once, a long time ago, before I got it through my thick head >>>>>> that Linux was GeekWare and I would never speak Penguin. >>>>>> (';') >>>>> You should have tried out more newbie friendly distros rather than using >>>>> "build everything yourself" and use "command line for everything" >>>>> distros. >>>>> >>>> You must mean Slackware. :^) >>>> >>> Yes. slack is included. The best list of easy to use vs difficult to use >>> distros is beautifully compiled by Arch wiki. Whatever is put under >>> "Source-based" and "Minimalist" are going to be really tough to use. >>> >>> Link:- >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions >>> >> >> Dennis sent me a CD of Slackware once, trying to help out. It wouldn't >> even install! THAT was the frosting on the proverbial Penguin cake. >> (';') >> > > I do remember sending you a CD of a linux distribution but in all > honesty I do not recall sending Slackware. Knowing that you were new to > linux I believe I would have sent something a little easier, maybe Suse. > The free version of Suse is now openSuse. Slackware is not really hard > to install but at the time it did not have a simple GUI installer and > involved a lot of choices during the install. Back then if linux did not > want to install there were a couple of quick edits that could easily be > done during the boot process that would have probably worked. I do not > remember if you asked for help trying to install or not. > > Now, I rarely have any problems installing linux on any machine. It just > seems to work. >
After slightly more thought, that was quite a while ago. I was probably using RedHat and would have probably sent that CD to you. I didn't switch to Suse/openSuse until 2007. Dennis _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
