XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 04/18/2013 07:45 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > 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   
   	I misspelled systems above hitting the d instead of the s.   
   Just want to be very clear on what I was attempting to write,   
   	Typed so much yesterday that my right hand hurts.   
   	bliss   
      
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