XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 10/25/2016 02:38 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:   
   > On 18/10/16 04:02, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>     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   
   >> grub.cfg.  I booted to root. used MC to delete the old file   
   >> and Dolphin to rename the grub.cfg.new to grub.dfg.   
   >>     Did not have to do those cunning moves on the Dell   
   >> which does not have a UEFI firmware but BIOS and GPT.   
   >>   
   >   
   > So 2016.06 was a backward step?   
   >   
      
   	As far as I know 2016.06 was a preview of the KDE's Plasma 5   
   that was superseded by 2016.07 preview.   
      
   	By the way I got a load of KDE updates so they have not stopped   
   working on KDE's Plasma 4.   
   	Since then I have from my user account brought up a root terminal, ran   
   Synaptic to make sure I had all the bits and pieces. did   
   my kernel update and either ran update-grub, looked at the output   
   then finding that grub.cfg had not been replaced, started up Dolphin   
   from the root terminal and renamed grub.cfg to Xgrub.cfg, then   
   renamed grub.cfg,new to grub.cfg and rebooted.   
      
   	Meantime my new Linux user has managed to do the update herself   
   proving I configured her old but refurbished tower better than I did   
   my Pavilion notebook nearly two years ago,   
   	By the way the current kernel in PCLOS is 4.8.4-pclos1   
   which is doing just fine on both my production machine and on my   
   Dell E6420(salvage).   
   	I intend to install an older version of PCLOS Mate a community   
   release from 10/15 that is less than 500 megabytes.   
   	I find the interface of the older version quite attractive   
   and reminiscent of Amiga OS 3.1.  I will check as to how far this can   
   be updated.  I am going to try to produce a more civilized utility   
   disk for recovery and for disk partitioning.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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