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Postby Rhakios » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:40 am

Has it gone so quiet here lately because everyone is busy upgrading their *ubuntus?
I ran a system upgrade on my XKUbuntu last night and it seems to be going okay at the moment. Is it a trifle quicker? Firefox appears to be, though I can't imagine why.
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Postby heiowge » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:19 am

No upgrades here. I upgraded to Mint about 2 years ago! :lol:
i5 4440 3.1Ghz, Asus H87M-E motherboard, 8GB DDR3, 2GB DDR5 nVidia card, 2x500GB Seagate hd, Coolermaster 750W PSU running Mint 17.1 MATE and Win7


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Postby nelz » Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:23 am

Is there a new Ubuntu out? I wonder what people will find to complain about this time :P
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Postby Rhakios » Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:55 am

heiowge wrote: I upgraded to Mint about 2 years ago!


I have tried Mint a couple of times, and while there's nothing particularly wrong with it, I found myself changing it in much the same ways I change Ubuntu, and as most of the repos are the same, I've just stuck with Ubuntu.
Actually, there is one thing I don't like about Mint, it's the way some upstream updates are hidden, so that what Mint update suggests and what apt-get upgrade suggests differ.

nelz wrote:Is there a new Ubuntu out? I wonder what people will find to complain about this time :P


Everything, while ignoring their option to use something else. :roll:
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Postby nelz » Fri Apr 26, 2013 12:56 pm

There's something else? :shock:
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Postby Rhakios » Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:21 pm

nelz wrote:There's something else? :shock:


There could be anything up to 49 more, so I've read somewhere. Though it seems about half of them are based on Ubuntu anyway.
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Postby Dutch_Master » Fri Apr 26, 2013 5:58 pm

The other half is based on Ubuntu's daddy: Debian ;)

Anyway, Wheezy is out by May 4 or 5, if everything goes as planned. I won't use it, it pushes Gnome 3 through your throat... :evil: Squeeze is the last Gnome 2 release on Debian and I'll stick to it for as long as I can... :cry:
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Postby Ram » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:38 pm

Rhakios wrote:
nelz wrote:There's something else? :shock:


There could be anything up to 49 more, so I've read somewhere. Though it seems about half of them are based on Ubuntu anyway.


Gone back, well first time on this particular Laptop to Opensuse. 12.3 runs beautifully on it.

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Postby Rhakios » Fri Apr 26, 2013 6:57 pm

Ram wrote:Gone back, well first time on this particular Laptop to Opensuse. 12.3 runs beautifully on it.


I tried 12.3 on my test box recently, and while it installed just fine and runs quickly enough, I found I was stuck with the ugly font problem that others have complained about in the past, but which has not previously afflicted me. I tried a few fixes, but nothing seemed to make much difference. :(
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Postby nelz » Fri Apr 26, 2013 7:22 pm

Dutch_Master wrote:Anyway, Wheezy is out by May 4 or 5, if everything goes as planned. I won't use it, it pushes Gnome 3 through your throat... :evil:


What? no KDE?
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Postby Ram » Sat Apr 27, 2013 12:02 am

Rhakios wrote:
Ram wrote:Gone back, well first time on this particular Laptop to Opensuse. 12.3 runs beautifully on it.


I tried 12.3 on my test box recently, and while it installed just fine and runs quickly enough, I found I was stuck with the ugly font problem that others have complained about in the past, but which has not previously afflicted me. I tried a few fixes, but nothing seemed to make much difference. :(


Luckily I'm not experiencing that.

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