Ok, I admit to being a bit older than most slashdotters, but once upon a time, there was hexachlorophene. Although I think the possibility of hexachlorophene being carcinogenic was the cause of its ban, I seem to recall concerns regarding bacteria becoming resistant to it as also mentioned.
I've got experience switch-flipping to boot an LSI-11 off of cassette tape. Trust me, as annoying as the Fedora boot process can be, switch-flipping is worse.
Erosion exposes a new surface to weathering, and a weathered surface can have a chemical composition significantly different than the unweathered interior.
. I was so overjoyed I managed to get it to install it the way I wanted...
I was happy I managed to install it without trashing any of my other installed distros. Unfortunately, I did let grub2 trash the MBR and had to reinstall legacy grub.
Personally, I like the fact that more DE options are appearing. Given that many are Gnome forks, I think it shows that the Gnome developers have gone off in a less-than-satisfying direction for many long-time users. So be it. I don't pay them to develop for me; I'm perfectly ok with letting them scratch their own itches. I don't like Gnome-Shell, I don't like Unity, and I haven't tried Mate, but Cinnamon seems pretty agreeable to me. I'll give Consort a shot - who knows, maybe I'll like it.
I purchased my ZG5 as a notebook replacement in 2008, and continue to use it as such today. Twice the RAM, twice the hard drive capacity, 20% more clock speed, and a processor with twice the number of threads of the notebook it replaced at half the price. It was a reasonable purchase at the time.
Actually, I do run multiple tasks on my netbook (my browser, my chart, and several others). And it's definitely a more pleasant experience to run multiple programs on a multicore processor. However, if my screen resolution is fixed, I'm not going to see any more on a 15.6 inch screen than I will on a 10 inch screen. The fact that I have to explain this to you does not speak well of your thought process.
I currently run the latest and greatest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu on my very ancient netbook (Acer Aspire One AOA150, Aton N270, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD), with no problems. DE is LXDE in both cases; just as it is on my desktop PC.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, so going back and forth isn't a problem. Mint even uses the Ubuntu repositories, and you could always add the Mint repositories to Ubuntu. Beyond the initial desktop, Mint offers a few customizations (menus, themes, display manager, and probably a few others I've overlooked), but the directory structure and drivers are identical. I've got both Ubuntu and Mint (and Fedora) installed on my desktop PC. Both Fedora and Ubuntu run LXDE desktops; they look and feel very, very similar to one another, but have some obvious differences under the hood. I don't like Gnome-Shell, and I don't like Unity; I installed Mint because I wanted to experience the Cinnamon desktop. I have to say, it's been a pleasant experience.
Question here: Why should a weak chip work better with a 10-12 inch screen than with 15.6 inch screen when both are running at 1366x768?
Now as for my Acer Aspire One with its Atom N270 and 1024x600 8.9 inch screen - that's weak.
Only two lines here; A-L and M-Z. Three people in front of me at 9:15. Voter number 355 at my precinct (the electronic reader shows the number of ballots inserted). Last election at about the same time I was number 55.
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It still very cool stuff!
I use GIMP for all of self-fulfillable my photo manipulation needs. GIMP would probably be able deal with the remainder of those needs if I would RTFM
My first computer ran CP/M. Fell free to play on my lawn
Ok, I admit to being a bit older than most slashdotters, but once upon a time, there was hexachlorophene. Although I think the possibility of hexachlorophene being carcinogenic was the cause of its ban, I seem to recall concerns regarding bacteria becoming resistant to it as also mentioned.
I don't know about you, but I'd much, much rather live in Bel Air (if I could afford it) than in Hawthorne.
I've got experience switch-flipping to boot an LSI-11 off of cassette tape. Trust me, as annoying as the Fedora boot process can be, switch-flipping is worse.
What, Mosaic wasn't good enough for you?
MariaDB sucks. I'll stick with MS Access. Best. Database. Ever.
You youngsters have no sense of history. The "Best. Database. Ever." was dBase. No run along and play
Although I use Fedora w/ LXDE as my main distro, my #2 is Mint 14 with Cinnamon (#3 is Lubuntu, and #4 is Puppy, which uses JWM).
My first IBM PC-compatible computer was 8086-based. But I got rid of it 20+ years ago, so it's ok if Intel drops support for 8086 opcodes.
Erosion exposes a new surface to weathering, and a weathered surface can have a chemical composition significantly different than the unweathered interior.
. I was so overjoyed I managed to get it to install it the way I wanted...
I was happy I managed to install it without trashing any of my other installed distros. Unfortunately, I did let grub2 trash the MBR and had to reinstall legacy grub.
Personally, I like the fact that more DE options are appearing. Given that many are Gnome forks, I think it shows that the Gnome developers have gone off in a less-than-satisfying direction for many long-time users. So be it. I don't pay them to develop for me; I'm perfectly ok with letting them scratch their own itches. I don't like Gnome-Shell, I don't like Unity, and I haven't tried Mate, but Cinnamon seems pretty agreeable to me. I'll give Consort a shot - who knows, maybe I'll like it.
I purchased my ZG5 as a notebook replacement in 2008, and continue to use it as such today. Twice the RAM, twice the hard drive capacity, 20% more clock speed, and a processor with twice the number of threads of the notebook it replaced at half the price. It was a reasonable purchase at the time.
I'm proud of the spaghetti code I wrote back in the mid 1980s. It actually worked. However, just thinking about it makes me feel old.
I never received any pay, nor did I expect any.
I could care less about the government, but it has the power to tax me, and, the less I care, the more I get taxed.
Actually, I do run multiple tasks on my netbook (my browser, my chart, and several others). And it's definitely a more pleasant experience to run multiple programs on a multicore processor. However, if my screen resolution is fixed, I'm not going to see any more on a 15.6 inch screen than I will on a 10 inch screen. The fact that I have to explain this to you does not speak well of your thought process.
I currently run the latest and greatest versions of Fedora and Ubuntu on my very ancient netbook (Acer Aspire One AOA150, Aton N270, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD), with no problems. DE is LXDE in both cases; just as it is on my desktop PC.
Mint is based on Ubuntu, so going back and forth isn't a problem. Mint even uses the Ubuntu repositories, and you could always add the Mint repositories to Ubuntu. Beyond the initial desktop, Mint offers a few customizations (menus, themes, display manager, and probably a few others I've overlooked), but the directory structure and drivers are identical. I've got both Ubuntu and Mint (and Fedora) installed on my desktop PC. Both Fedora and Ubuntu run LXDE desktops; they look and feel very, very similar to one another, but have some obvious differences under the hood. I don't like Gnome-Shell, and I don't like Unity; I installed Mint because I wanted to experience the Cinnamon desktop. I have to say, it's been a pleasant experience.
Question here: Why should a weak chip work better with a 10-12 inch screen than with 15.6 inch screen when both are running at 1366x768? Now as for my Acer Aspire One with its Atom N270 and 1024x600 8.9 inch screen - that's weak.
Let the Gnome devs do as they want with their extensions. If I want to run a GTK3-based desktop, I'll run Cinnamon.
I believe XFCE sprang up long before Gnome-3 reared it's ugly shell
Well, it did produce Joe McCarthy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_mccarthy/
Only two lines here; A-L and M-Z. Three people in front of me at 9:15. Voter number 355 at my precinct (the electronic reader shows the number of ballots inserted). Last election at about the same time I was number 55.