<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" target="_blank">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div>
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> That whole project was a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for me.<br>
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> First, whyyyyyyy?<br>
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> Second, their funding campaign was ridiculous, from the goal to the<br>
> rewards to everything.<br>
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> Third, their specs were meh at best and their justification for them was<br>
> ridiculous ("Nobody wants really good specs anyway.")<br></div><div>
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> It's just another one of those things that makes me really think I should<br>> switch away from Ubuntu before it's too late.<br>
<br></div></span><div>A couple of years ago I put Ubuntu on two laptops. I didn't like<br></div><div>some of the defaults so I put Fedora on one of the laptops. I really<br></div><div>should put something else on the other one too.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div></blockquote><div>Really not trying to start a distro war (a.k.a. religious war) but here is what I did.<br><br></div><div>Many years ago I started on RH 5.2 then 6 and then somewhere it was Fedora Core<br></div><div>and later it became Fedora. Well - - - I switched away when I couldn't update because<br>the repository address had changed. (Today that wouldn't be a biggie but then I hadn't <br>yet learned how to do that.) Well what I got tired of was needing to change the system<br></div><div>so often. I tried Debian (had a mentor in a LUG though) and liked the idea of working for <br></div><div>a long time without having keep changing things. Still there although now I use testing<br></div><div>rather than stable for my base systems.<br><br></div><div>I have been running Ubuntu because my wife likes more eye candy stuff and can say <br></div><div>that Ubuntu really doesn't allow me to set things up the way I want them. I have to be<br></div><div>and old fogey but I can still remember the slogan "computing for you - - just the way<br></div><div>you want - - - microcomputers" - - - - rather than the mainframe systems where you <br></div><div>had to do things the way the IT department wanted it. Well the IT department now<br></div><div>runs all the micros and they still haven't figured out how to do things the way I would<br></div><div>like them (they prefer change for changes sake along with eye candy and plenty of<br></div><div>other bumpf) but I'm still working on running things my way.<br><br></div><div>Working on learning more calculus so that I can use the 3 GPU cards I have in my box<br></div><div>for Monte Carlo analysis and that's looking like it will be a lot of interesting when I<br></div><div>manage to get there. So much to do and so little time to do it in!<br><br></div><div>Dee<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div></div><div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Brian<br>Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust.<br><a href="http://webEbenezer.net" target="_blank">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br><br><br><br></div></div>
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