On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
>
> Windows NT did that from the beginning too. It's just that everybody
> ignored it.
>
Bill Gates said, "And through Windows NT, you can see it throughout the
design. In a weak sense, it is a form of Unix."
-- UNIX Expo, October 9, 1996
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On 24 May 2013 13:59, Paul McNett wrote:
> Also, you know that whole movement several years back from Microsoft to
> separate your
> applications from your data? *nix did that from the beginning. User data is
> saved in
> highly-defined, known places that are completely separate from application
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
>
> It definitely needs to be done every once in a while regardless of OS.
> Prepare for immediate dust-off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
> Probably a lot easier in the *nix world which is just as well as major
> versions appear much more
On 5/24/13 4:19 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> > The last round of updates have been migrating from 32- to 64-bit, which
>> > necessitates the reinstall. Before that, it was leaving a troublesome
>> > printer monitor behind. It's always something. I
On Fri, May 24, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>
> The last round of updates have been migrating from 32- to 64-bit, which
> necessitates the reinstall. Before that, it was leaving a troublesome
> printer monitor behind. It's always something. In the long run, I think
> doing the Freeman is
> I responded to a similar thread on the ProLinux list. My answer,
> essentially, is that backup-flatten-and-install (aka "Freemanizing") is
> really the only way to keep cruft from accumulating on any system.
> doing the Freeman is the better way.
Indeed
A+
jml
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
The only major issue I had was that
> you can't do in-place major version upgrades, you have to back up to
> external HDD, clean install, and restore. Well, fugg that.
I responded to a similar thread on the ProLinux list. My answer,
essentiall
On Thu, May 23, 2013, at 08:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> "As far as I'm concerned the latest version, Linux Mint 15, Olivia, is
> now
> not merely the best Linux desktop, it's the best desktop operating system
> of all."
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/mint-15-todays-best-linux-desktop-review-715691/
On 5/23/2013 3:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
"As far as I'm concerned the latest version, Linux Mint 15, Olivia, is now
not merely the best Linux desktop, it's the best desktop operating system
of all."
http://www.zdnet.com/mint-15-todays-best-linux-desktop-review-715691/
Sometimes you just nee
"As far as I'm concerned the latest version, Linux Mint 15, Olivia, is now
not merely the best Linux desktop, it's the best desktop operating system
of all."
http://www.zdnet.com/mint-15-todays-best-linux-desktop-review-715691/
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.c
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