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Re: [trinity-users] What is WRONG With TDE PClinuxOS???

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 18:57:25 -0800
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greg m

On Saturday 06 June 2015 05:35:56 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> All this bruhhah about PClinuxOS has caused me to sit here a few minutes
> longer.
>
> I ran it on this box for about a year, but some might call me a power
> user.  My parting of the ways was when I needed to build something for
> the 3rd or 4th time, but the libraries to built it were not avaiable in
> the repos, AND Texstar refused to add them.  Net result was I installed
> the kit I needed in the form of a wheezy based iso put up by the
> linuxcnc crowd.  I haven't had to do searching since as it uses the
> wheezy repo's except for a pinned kernel.
>
> On Saturday 06 June 2015 09:05:24 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 06 June 2015 13:10:22 Tini wrote:
> > > i re-installed and it's still screwed up. this time i noticed that
> > > the file manager isn't 'tde', rather its 'icewm'
> > >
> > > how did that happen?!?
> > >
> > > --- Original Message ---
> > > From: Slávek Banko <slavek.banko@...>
> > > To: trinity-users@...
> > > Subject: Re: [trinity-users] What is WRONG With TDE PClinuxOS???
> > > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015
> > >
> > > On Friday 05 of June 2015 23:31:15 Tini wrote:
> > > > i just installed tde-pclinuxos and the screen looks nothing like
> > > > the screen on the cd?!? there are no icons anywhere and nothing
> > > > works!
> > >
> > > That sounds like a bug 2437:
> > >
> > > http://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2437
> >
> > You need someone who uses this.  They all seem to be absent, though
> > there are quite a few of them.  It's a Saturday.  Slávek is usually
> > here at the weekend, which is OK for us Debian users. :-)  But people
> > in general are sparse on the ground.
> >
> > You might find this and what follows interesting:
> > http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::6924
> >
> > It's your time and money, and you who might be getting as pig-headed
> > as I have been known to get, and you who may be saying "I'm ***-well
> > _going_ to get it done this way", but I'd try optical media at this
> > point.
> >
> > I have had problems with USB installation on occasion.  Not, as it
> > happens, with TDE (it was Linux Mint 17 with MATE), but it was a
> > problem with the actual stick.  It installed on some boxen and not on
> > others.  Honest!  Where it didn't install, we managed to get hold of a
> > DVD and that worked.
> >
> > The actual sticks/keys are a variable bunch.  I gather it makes a
> > difference where in the block the chip is cut from - middle or
> > outside.
> >
> > Grandmother. eggs etc, but I would md5sum or shasum or something check
> > both the download (you already have) *and* the burnt image, if you
> > burn one.
> >
> > Lisi
> >
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett


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Greg M