Comments for Krispy's Rants http://chrisjpowell.com Sat, 11 May 2013 11:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on OS Sunday – No Need to Climb a Mountain…just get a little Manjaro by Vic http://chrisjpowell.com/os-sunday-no-need-to-climb-a-mountain-just-get-a-little-manjaro/#comment-1127 Vic Sat, 11 May 2013 11:41:02 +0000 http://chrisjpowell.com/?p=2078#comment-1127 Been using Manjaro for 8 months. Love it! Then had to use Windows 8 for 2 months solid, come back to the Manjaro notebook tried to update it to 8.5.2 and all hell broke – the CLI update function (pacman) was thrashed, everyone on the forums (newbie-ish like me) crying for help. Geeky helpers spouting gibberish (trying to help for sure but the knowledge gap was too great!), many different solutions exploding onto the forums but none of those worked and “corrupted” my pacman config files further each time. Phew, I went back to my Bodhi distro on dual boot – peace and calm – om!

Now before settling on Manjaro, I did a lot of distro hopping research. For me Manjaro beat them all – Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Zorin, SUSE, Peppermint, Mageia, Pardus, Bodhi, Salix, Sabayon and more that I’ve forgotten. Epiphany! – bleeding edge is great but can sometime result in bleeding times. I realise that this favorite distro would be hard to beat, so I bit the bullet and did a clean install of the latest xfce 8.5.2 (I had the /home on a different partition).

Yes, it was worth it! Enjoying again the look, speed and feel of arguably one of the best distro around. And the 8.5.2 is a significant improvement on my old version that the update broke. Thanks Manjaro team!

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]]> Comment on Girls Rock IT…They Certainly Do! by Mark Reynolds http://chrisjpowell.com/girls-rock-it-they-certainly-do/#comment-1029 Mark Reynolds Fri, 03 May 2013 11:49:24 +0000 http://chrisjpowell.com/?p=2158#comment-1029 You’ve already made all the compelling comments, Chris. Good on you !

]]> Comment on How to own your own Nuclear Power Plant by Kodak to exit Bankruptcy...I guess they sold that Nuclear Reactor | Krispy's Rants http://chrisjpowell.com/how-to-own-your-own-nuclear-power-plant/#comment-1004 Kodak to exit Bankruptcy...I guess they sold that Nuclear Reactor | Krispy's Rants Wed, 01 May 2013 10:52:55 +0000 http://www.chrisjpowell.com/?p=382#comment-1004 [...] year I found the information that Kodak had been keeping a Nuclear Reactor and a substantial stockpile of Weapons Grade Uranium in the basement of the Rochester New York HQ. [...]

]]> Comment on Infographic of the Week – The Big Google Gamble by eric hitchman http://chrisjpowell.com/infographic-of-the-week-the-big-google-gamble/#comment-993 eric hitchman Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:05:21 +0000 http://chrisjpowell.com/?p=2148#comment-993 Great infographic, Chris. Thanks!

]]> Comment on Open Source Saturday – The Future of Open Source by Samida Wendel (@otaida) http://chrisjpowell.com/open-source-saturday-the-future-of-open-source/#comment-975 Samida Wendel (@otaida) Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:43:10 +0000 http://chrisjpowell.com/?p=2133#comment-975 Open Source cannot replace commercial software but it could prevent monopoly happen…

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