| Mark Warner 2005-10-30, 5:54 pm |
| Chronocidal Charlie wrote:
>
> Trying to turn me into a non-entity. Kind of yearn fer the good old
> days when at least Windows would throw up a nice big solicitous "Hey
> Charlie! Windows has adjusted yer clock fer yew to confirm with the
> "Slay-Light Slaving Time" change. Ain't Winders Nice. Say *Thank*
> *You* now Charlie" and then promptly screw up my systems clock by
> setting it back to local time instead of GMT.
Some of us like all that automagic shit, Charlie.
I have been trying for some time to get a working load of MEPIS
installed. Every time I got a NO OS failure on the first boot to the
hard drive. Seems that the MEPIS partitioning tool in the installer is
known to NOT set the first/boot partition as active. Booted to the
install disk, started the install, used the QPart tool to set the
partition as active, canceled the install, reinstalled GRUB, and all is
well.
Initial impression is good. So good in fact that I'm seriously thinking
of putting a load on a free partition I've got on my main machine. (I've
been using an old backup machine to test out all these Linux distros,
and performance is obviously suffering owing to the age and slowness of
the hardware.) I did find it odd that Thunderbird wasn't offered from
the official MEPIS repository. KMail is fine, but I can't abide Pan for
news, and since I'm a Usenet junkie...
....I went into Synaptic and enabled the Debian unstable. Now I'd read
that you had to be careful with installing straight Debian packages into
Deb-derived distros like Ubuntu and MEPIS -- that they weren't
necessarily compatible -- but what the hey, I got nothing to lose.
Thought I screwed the pooch when during the install of all the lib files
that were supposedly required a terminal screen popped up saying that no
locales could be located, and it started loading every locale file
imaginable. Nevertheless, once all that was over with, the Tbird install
completed, and all seems to be just fine.
I was impressed with Ubuntu. I think I like this better.
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Mark Warner
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