From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 07/02/2016 01:45 AM, Ikke wrote:   
   > Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 06/30/2016 01:06 AM, Ikke wrote:   
   >>> Doug Laidlaw_1 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> ....snip...   
   >>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes I notice the late night effect myself all too often,   
   >>>>> But Open Mandriva will have to bring out a release candidate   
   >>>>> before I will bother to download it,  The earlier version would   
   >>>>> not boot on my computer(s).  I would rather be concerned with   
   >>>>> the PCLinuxOS rolling release and the Mageia 6 which might be   
   >>>>> coming out by fall.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> bliss   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I would be interested in hearing how you find a rolling release.  One   
   >>>> comparison said that the major distros avoid them because it is too big   
   >>>> a   
   >>>> task for the developers.  OpenSuSE is offering one, in the alternative.   
   >>>>   
   >>> ....snip....   
   >>>   
   >>> Just my 2c on the PCLinuxOS rolling release:   
   >>> I have weened some friends off Win to Mageia since a number of years.   
   >>> Last year I have been running PCLinux OS on my laptop to find out how the   
   >>> rolling release worked. The concept was appealing to me, as it would   
   >>> avoid me to run around every 18 months-2 years to install the next   
   >>> supported release when theirs is not supported anymore.   
   >>> I for myself had no problems in running PCLinux OS. But some of my   
   >>> friends are very bad at using computers and learning new tricks is a   
   >>> problem. So I came to the conclusion that the way getting updates from   
   >>> the repos is far too complex for those people (it involves some 6 steps   
   >>> to get the process running). I gave finally up on it.   
   >>>   
   >>> Herman Viaene   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> Well with a single page of printed out instructions I managed to get   
   >> one other naive user to keep PCLOS running.  I also gave him a couple   
   >> of hours of practical instruction on the use of the update facility   
   >> using the file manager and what various tools did.   I remind the   
   >> user to do updates whenever I am sure they are functional but since   
   >> he is elderly (not as elderly as myself) I will come by and help   
   >> him out if an update goes badly.  He was used to using MacOS and   
   >> Windows.   
   >>   
   >> The possibility of a bad update coming through seems less now   
   >> than when I was using PC-LOS on Compaq notebook a couple of years back.   
   >> But I am thinking about creating a backup to the most important   
   >> partitions on my setup so that I would only have to switch to that   
   >> backup after a bad update.   
   >>   
   >> Now I am going to review the instructions I originally   
   >> gave him and see if they need replacement with more general or   
   >> precise terms.  Anyone interested in seeing the result?   
   >>   
   >> bliss   
   >   
   > Yes please   
   >   
   > Herman   
   >   
   	Might have it out next week.   
   I rewrote the paragraphs on Synaptic from memory and will have   
   to check it against the procedure as carried out in digital   
   reality then convert it to text from .odt   
      
   	bliss   
      
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