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Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Dhaval Giani — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:23:15 GMT

... Fedora in general has a policy to stick as close as possible to upstream. So while they have a few patches they are not really significant (except maybe

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

retnuh_daeh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:51:21 GMT

... The package manager (pacman) takes care of the dependencies, it rolls back all the dependent packages too. Usually what happens is that if there is an

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Edgar D' Souza — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:23:16 GMT

... Yeah - good to see you finally found this ;) ... This is good news... but what about dependencies - e.g. if you want to install the latest version of a GUI

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Edgar D' Souza — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:17:59 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Dhaval Giani wrote: [snip] ... OK, will do. With relatively new hardware, I've been facing

Re: [fsug-goa] Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

Dhaval Giani — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:12:09 GMT

[I don't know how yahoo formats its mail, but see if you can do something about these infinitely long lines. Try for a line break around 70-80 characters] ...

Re: [fsug-goa] Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

Dhaval Giani — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:00:18 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Edgar D' Souza ... Ah, my bad. Note to self, READ MAIL BEFORE POSTING. ... Absolutely :-). Dhaval -- Marie von

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

retnuh_daeh — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:10:48 GMT

... Did someone mention Arch? :) You can go back/stay on an older version of a package as long as you like and is not causing conflict with any dependent

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Dhaval Giani — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:41:45 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Edgar D' Souza ... Of course ;). Seriously though, fedora does stick very close to upstream, and that is why you have the

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Edgar D' Souza — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:49 GMT

... Ah! OK, thanks... That is something I can try too :-) ... Yes, a rollback feature is essential - I wonder if Arch has one. ... Yes, addictively! :-) For

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Kenneth Rodrigues — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:38:48 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Edgar D' Souza ... I've been meaning to really check if there's a solution. Just haven't got around to it yet. I should be

Re: [fsug-goa] Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

Vidyadhar Gadgil — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:28:53 GMT

... Please -- spare me! Granted, I'm not getting any younger, but plain 'Gadgil' or 'Vidyadhar' is fine. ... The chap is bringing his netbook to the office

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Edgar D' Souza — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:28:08 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Kenneth Rodrigues ... The comments there "Fix Released" - in time for Karmic (07/2009)... if you're having the problem

Re: [fsug-goa] Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

Navin Pai — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:25:43 GMT

"a prospective newbie converting from Win to Linux" refers to the person whom Mr. Gadgil is setting up UNR for, not Mr.Gadgil himself!! Kindly read the first

Re: [fsug-goa] Problems installing Ubuntu 9.10

Edgar D' Souza — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:08:44 GMT

... +1... the epithets were not called for, even if they are kind of hard to understand. ... VG clarified: "it's for a friend whom I've convinced to give Linux

Re: Karmic Koala - a disappointment

Anil Seth — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:12:13 GMT

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Edgar D' Souza ... Copied /boot/*2.6.31* from 9.10 installation to /boot of 9.04 installation Similarly copied