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To: Texas Fossil

What version are you using?


50 posted on 03/17/2018 5:03:09 PM PDT by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: Pelham

This one is Debian 8.

Due for a reinstall, some of the update stuff has been flaky working. I did some installs of software by command line and find I can no longer use the software update GUI.

Have thought about looking for one of the more secure systems. Possibly OpenBSD. Not sure yet.

I am sure that I want something using XFCE GUI. First used it in Redhat 8, it was not in that install but I downloaded the RPM and installed it. Love at first sight. smile.

Have used may distributions over the years. My first one was a UMSDOS version of Slackware. Think it was called Pygmy Linux. It had no GUI and was installed by quite a few 3-1/2” floppies. Was very fast and stable. But configuring took a while to work through. You had to use an editor and actually rewrite the config files in a lot of cases.


58 posted on 03/17/2018 5:32:56 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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