XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 04/16/2013 06:26 PM, Jim Beard wrote:   
   > On 04/16/2013 04:59 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >> On 04/15/2013 09:10 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>> On 04/13/2013 09:42 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>>      But then it went away or at least the damn home directory was   
   >>> munged and back to work.   
   >>>      haven't managed to configure my home Thunderbird yet   
   >>> so back to work.   
   >>>   
   >>>      bliss   
   >>>   
   >>      Well I got it re-installed at the SF-LUG meeting earlier this   
   >> (Monday)evening, shut it down with Hibernation and back at home,   
   >> it is running OK.   Not fully configured yet but much closer.   
   >>   
   >>      I frankly would rather be using Mandriva 2013.01 but looks like   
   >> that is not going to happen so...   
   >   
   > Actually, Per Oyvind Karlsen has released a "preview" of something, that   
   > he calls Moondrake.  That is Open Mandriva's cooker, bundled. I would   
   > not recommend you install it unless you wish to really be on the   
   > bleeding edge of something that may go away entirely.  The Open Mandriva   
   > Association will at some point release a new version, but as you observe   
   > that may not happen soon.   
   >   
   > If you prefer Mandriva, may I suggest Magea 3.  The Beta 4 release is   
   > currently serving me well (on my backup machine, not my "production"   
   > machine).  There are currently 40-odd "critical" bugs holding up the   
   > release, but many of those have been fixed and are just awaiting testing.   
   >   
   > When Magea 3 is released, I intend to buy a laptop (it will have a   
   > 17.3-inch display for my old eyes, leaning toward an AMD A8 cpu, hp for   
   > the keyboard which I like better than the Dell keyboard, would be nice   
   > if it had Win7 for dual boot rather than Win 8 but the latter seems to   
   > be the default on machines with the A8- cpu).  If Magea 3 installs   
   > nicely and works on that, I will probably install it on my two desktop   
   > machines.   
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
   >   
   >   
   	Well Jim I would do the same but all the new higher powered   
   systemd are going to be using UEFI with Secure Boot so right now Fedora   
   18 and Kubuntu/Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 12.10.2 are the only bootable distros   
   on those machines.  Of course Mageia 3 may be able to deal with that   
   using the Linux Foundations tools but most likely it will require that   
   you use the tools and then boot the Linux.   
   	New versions of 'buntus are due shortly according to my   
   informant.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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