Re: (no subject)

Woo-hoo Geoff, you're my pin-up now! Don't tell Monica,  she might kick my
ankles
;-)

Kathinka

On 26 November 2014 at 15:44, Geoff Barkman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Geoff uses Lubuntu 14.04 (I have cd if you would like)
>
> woohoo no unity
> Lxde desktop is a lot like the old gnome desktop we used to love.
>
>
> On 11/26/14, Kathinka <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm using mint because I disliked the smartphone-ised Ubuntu, and yes I
> > know it's my duty as a consumer to adapt to what producers want to
> produce
> > but  that's too much like the DCC's attitude of "we're putting up parking
> > charges because we think you should walk, bus and cycle" and I don't like
> > that either so I practice active avoidance.
> >
> > So anyhoo, I'd better take a look-see at what mint has on offer now...
> well
> > not now, it's a great gardening day and I've finished my coffee break.
> >
> > Thanks for the heads-up about new versions, guys!
> >
> > Kathinka.
> >
> > On 26 November 2014 at 13:59, Michael Foley <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 26 November 2014 at 13:30, Noel Sheridan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) End of Life reached on January 27 2014
> >>> Need to upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> see here;
> >>>
> >>> http://tinyurThat is what I was going to say alsol.com/pp9j4bf
> >>> <http://tinyurl.com/pp9j4bf>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Noel
> >>>
> >>>
> >> To add to what Noel said, they changed the non-LTS releases of Ubuntu to
> >> only 9 months, so when you upgrade it is probably best not to upgrade to
> >> 14.10, but 14.04 instead as it is the LTS with 5 years of support.  And
> >> 14.10 is not noticeably different from 14.04 anyway.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
> >>
> >> Michael
> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > [Feeding children adequately] should be the parents responsibility, ''but
> > if you've got crappy parents, you're bloody stuffed aren't ya?" (Jamie
> > Pink)
> >
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>
>
> --
>      Cheers
> Geoff Barkman
> ======================================
>



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