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   Bobbie Sellers to Bobbie Sellers   
   Re: see PCLinux OS 2016.03 run   
   19 Oct 16 08:44:42   
   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 10/17/2016 10:02 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 04/23/2016 07:23 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >> right here on my notebook!   
      
   >>     Hi Typers and readers,   
   >>         Got my Virtual Box install of Mageia 6dev1 running nicely on it   
   >> but for some reason I decided to move stuff over to   
   >> the PCLOS this afternoon and now we are cooking with gas!   
   >>   
   >>     It seems to boot faster than Mageia 5.   
   >>   
   >>     But the best things are the ease of setting up the Virtual Box and   
   >> LibreOffice5 oh and the fact it can use the (U)EFI and GPT.   
   >>   
   >>     Maybe a few visits back to the Mageia 5 but maybe not.   
   >>   
   >>     bliss   
   >     So about 5 months now under PCLOS 2016.03 which has   
   > been kept fully updated.   
   	   
   	Mageia 6sta fell over on every update and I wiped it   
   off the disk.   
      
   >   
   >     No real problems and with some cunning moves I updated to   
   > kernel 4.8.1 today on the Pavilion here and have 4.8.2 running on   
   > the Dell.  Cunning moves,  Grub-organizer could not write the   
   	That should be grub-customizer not organizer   
   > grub.cfg.  I booted to root. used MC to delete the old file   
   > and Dolphin to rename the grub.cfg.new to grub.cfg.   
   	Was mistyped "grub.dfg" but is now corrected above.   
   	I guess I used up all my critical intelligence   
   Monday on the described operation with none left for checking   
   my typing.   
      
   >     Did not have to do those cunning moves on the Dell   
   > which does not have a UEFI firmware but BIOS and GPT.   
   >   
   >     bliss   
   >   
   	And I did do the update on the Pavilion to 4.8.2.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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