Posted on 06/23/2014 4:35:56 PM PDT by Bikkuri
Mint KDE 17 is finally released!
Try the free version first, it gets you one camera linkage apparently.
10-4
I'll be a bit of a contrarian (in a FRiendly way, of course) on that. I've been tracking Mint since version 13 "Maya" and have seamlessly incremented to each new release: 14 "Nadia" to 15 "Olivia" to 16 "Petra" and the current 17 "Qiana". It was merely a matter of adjusting the repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list and then doing the tango of apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get upgrade. I'll add the usual caveats that "it worked for me", "past performance is not an indicator of future results", "YMMV", "void where prohibited" and "I cannot be held responsible for any of the above, as apparently my cat has learned how to type."
And transient version-to-version upgrading may be moot since Mint 17 is a long term support release and will be supported until 2019 or as I like to think of it, midway into the Palin administration.
I try to stay out of that mess (do enjoy reading the comments though).. The last experience I had with MAC was about 1984.... G2, or something like that.. much experience with Win and Linux though..
I got my first one in 1976....
Not sure it was the same on your side... but the smell was called “Wolf Pussy”.. (smell of the sulpher from Vietnam old powder) :p
Mint tried to make it easier (a bit) for novice users.. This is the forst one that actually worked (for me).. Most would go simple route and let the LIVE partition (which is ok), but I do prefer to have control.... :p
Was simple.. ext4.. tempted to try btrfs... :p
btw, I had to run 8 gun batt :p
Install Linux? download the ISO.. burn it to DVD (and bootable), or to USB (bootable).. You can run it LIVE.. and never touch your HDS, just to test it out..
darnitt... second time I typoed on first (1st).. felling really inferior now :p ...
Give it a try perhaps on a virtual machine. I've seen it come a long way just over the past two years. While I wouldn't yet run anything mission critical on btrfs, I think the day is coming before too long when it becomes the filesystem of choice. I believe SuSE may be headed there already, making it the default.
Its snapshot capabilities are just so simple and well-designed. I dare say that it may be better than ZFS in some ways.
Must say someting.. thought no one remembered Neil Diamond ;) .... used to have his 45s ...
Thanks for posting. I’ve been waiting for the KDE version of Mint 17. I’m going to install it in a VM and test some stuff out. I’m thinking of trying to go with this as the “Easy” version for friends. The biggest problem with me switching from Fedora, is that from what I understand, there is no “Quanta” package, and I’ve been using that for years to do simple HTML editing.
Nothing in this day and age is ... crud.. trying to think of the way to say it (forgot much of my English..)... I remember when we had assembly ( of course, we had WATFIVE, etc)... and BASIC (when I actually started).. we had no idea about how to format a damn HD (or floppy)... about 8 inch back the.. and a massive HD was about 12 meg
My first 2 PCs had NO HD.. first modem was 300bd :p
New format? ... yes, I am cautious... :p
VB is not same.. partition and make dual boot.. fraking perfect on my side so far (and I had biggest bug system... AMD with nVid cards)... Absolutely NO probs here...
Last I heard (and I may be wrong) was that Linus Torvalds threw in the towel with KDE when version 4 first came out and is using XFCE as his desktop. I mostly did the same since the early KDE4 versions were pretty rough, to put it kindly. Although it took several iterations, they have really produced what I consider to the premiere desktop environment -- bar none. It's slick, highly polished, customizable, solid as the proverbial rock, quite beautiful and contrary to the naysayers, not a resource pig. On those occasions when I have to work on a customer system equipped with Windows 8.1 or Ubuntu with Unity, they just feel so crude and constrained compared to what KDE4 has become. I think Linus or any other doubter needs to give it another look.
I hope this doesn't devolve into a desktop flamewar but, as a doubter myself and one who struggled with the near-beta quality of the earlier KDE4 releases, I've really come to enjoy and appreciate it.
Yup.
Still called that.
And the ammonium nitrate pellet propellants smell plenty funny themselves.
We were light towed 105mm field pieces.
Six gun battery.
We fired under our own Illume a few times.
At the time we were told that was “wrong” and “near impossible”.
We went “ uh, we’ve been doing it that way all night.”
The oc’s had a heart attack, nervously muttered among themselves for a bit.
Dunno why.
lmao.. sadly, I didn’t go through ARMY boot and AIT... was only out of AF for about a year before I went back in... same with AIT.. I had to learn OJT :p .. and I gained 2 rank (USAF was/is the slowest in rank..).. took me 4 years to get E4... about 2 months training to get E6 in ARMY.. :p
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