<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top">So far it's been Slack and now Ubuntu. Started with Slack 3.0 and then red hat 3.3 thru 5.x. I used Debian back around Sarge. There was a pretty major change in the libc in Linux then. Many broken systems. I think I remember someone writing a howto to do that upgrade with apt-get and my upgrade went flawlessly. I think there had to be a specific order. Anyway I've always had a soft spot for apt-get after that. But I remember my deb box being way out of date behind the rest of Linux land. So I'm happy to see so many Debian spin offs. <br/><br/>Slack has been instructive and a lot of fun as a box I can tinker with and tweak how I like. But a little harder to update in place without fixing a bunch after. Still a fave distro tho. If I focused on streamlining and getting the upgrades down I'd probably be happy with it forever. <br/><br/>So far Ubuntu seems like a favorite and easy.
Not sure how I feel about Canonical. Unity is a great word but they can keep the desktop. Not for me. Typically a fluxbox sort of guy. But I'm trying Mate. So far so good. I love the endless repositories for Ubuntu. <br/><br/>So I used to used procmail and mutt for list traffic. But now it's just Yahoo. Haven't been on a list for years. Is the cruft from yahoo on my emails getting to be a bit much for the list?<br/><br/>Dave<a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com?.src=iOS"><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top">Like I always say, LXDE in its current form is abandoned, but LXQT is<br clear="none">nowhere near ready for prime time yet. Basically, sometime soon your entire<br clear="none">desktop is going to change when Lubuntu moves entirely from a GTK to a Qt<br clear="none">based DE.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Watch out!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Raj Wurttemberg <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:rajaw@c64.us" href="javascript:return">rajaw@c64.us</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Latest Distro: LUbuntu... don't like that wacky "Unity" desktop.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Editor: nano (I know.. I know.. ) *but* I am learning to use and like<br clear="none">> vi.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Kind regards,<br clear="none">> Raj<br clear="none">><br
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