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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Thanks Rich. The picture is getting clearer and other than getting my |
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>> backup SSD installation up to date it's good to know there's no |
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>> difficult requirements for me to deal with at this time. Being that I |
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>> have been (for the last 5-6 years anyway) a 'stable' Gentoo user it's |
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>> to my advantage if things stay basically the same over time. |
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>> After your and Canek's responses it's clear that within my framework I |
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>> won't be moving to eudev or mdev. The only systemd question I might |
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>> need to answer going forward is for my dad's machine. He's got 15 |
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>> years of email traffic in Evolution and I've not investigated running |
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>> Evolution in any desktop environment other than Gnome. There's no way |
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>> at this point to move him away from Evolution so I just need to figure |
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>> out over time (the next year maybe) how to best deal with that. |
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> Please don't top post. |
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Sorry. I seldom do that and don't know why I did that time. |
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> I've been using Evolution for more than 10 years, always with GNOME, |
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> but I'm pretty sure you can run it in every other DE. |
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Probably true. The bar I need to hurdle, probably not much of a jump, |
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would be getting any new DE to simply look enough like what he |
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currently has in Gnome 2. I suspect that XFCE with identical wallpaper |
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and a little thought about placing the right app-start icons on the |
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desktop would be enough to give me 'plausible deniability' about |
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whatever changes I actually made under the hood. |
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Leaving out the issue of password changes I hope few folks have to |
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deal with the phone call where, after 10 years of no changes, a loved |
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one calls you and asks "What is this screen that is asking for my User |
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Name and Password want me to do? I don't remember..." I am so thankful |
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for both the remote administration capabilities of Linux and the |
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security model/lack of viruses. I cannot imagine how painful my life |
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would be today if he was still using Windows living 350 miles away. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |