[ale] Presentation challenge

Fri Feb 1 16:40:30 EST 2013

I figured out the screen on the install pretty quickly. Crap that had to be
done was highlighted in red box. Once that was done, the highlight went
away. Kind of bozo'ed to not have a linear process but at least it won't
call a hard stop while a network address get's looked up or some other
piddly thing. Would have been better to use full red/green nomenclature
(crazy redneck Canadians ALWAYS make more sense :-)

It _still_ G3 on the desktop. <sarcasm> I love all windows defaulting to
full screen so all I have to do bounce back and forth between research
screen and install screen is throw the mouse at the upper left corner and
then select the correct shrunken screen from the dozen or so that I can't
read and the rearrange if I kill a window so I can memorize by location
</sarcasm>

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On 02/01/2013 02:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> PS, I wasn't saying I could do a presentation, I was saying I wanted to
>> see a presentation.
>>
>> PPS, The guys on the Tux Radar podcast (the same group that publishes
>> Linux Format magazine) were sort of blasting the Fedora team for confusing
>> changes to the installer UI and a new lock screen that you cannot figure
>> out how to get out of and (if I remember right) a desktop that's empty and
>> non obvious what to do.  I don't know anything about Fedora, but I thought
>> I'd pass this along.
>>
> yeah, looks like they screwed the pooch.  I could not figure out how to do
> the install the way I wanted it done.  Yup, good ol spoke and wheels
> system, because the tried and true was soooooo confusing.  Idiots.
>
>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  Great! So we'll have a short on one of those and why it's good and what
>>> needs work :-)
>>>
>>> This is getting pretty good!
>>>
>>> Fedora? (must compare/contrast to RHEL as well as non-rpm distros)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)<
>>> atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.**com <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  I wouldn't mind a presentation on Mint, or on installing Mate or
>>>>
>>> Cinnamon
>>>
>>>> on Ubuntu.  Since my Ubuntu 11.04 expired, I have to figure out
>>>>
>>> whether to
>>>
>>>> fire them and go to Mint or try to put Mate or Cinnamon on Ubuntu
>>>>
>>> 12.04.
>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Ron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jim Lynch<ale_nospam@**fayettedigital.com<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 02/01/2013 08:20 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is mint a desktop or a distro? I would put it in the desktop
>>>>>>
>>>>> group.
>>>
>>>> I guess I've never seen a discussion of the difference but since
>>>>>
>>>> Mint
>>>
>>>> doesn't offer a specific server edition, I'll agree with you. Most
>>>>>
>>>> of
>>>
>>>> Mint specific repos are GUI related.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim.
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>> Please excuse my potential brevity.
>>
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