[DC LoCo] Latest misadventures with Precise

[jerry w]

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On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 29 January 2012 06:30, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Possibly related, I was not getting a graphical boot,
>> SuperBlock had "a time in the future, but the same day",
>> FSCK fixed it, each boot, when I asked
>> on recovery or similar and then a screenrc?
>> or something detecting graphical hardware
>> for XOrg from like 5-8 days now, struggled with it for a while...
>
> I think that's because Windows sets the time to local and Unix systems
> set the time to UTC/GMT which is 5 hours earlier than UTC.
>

Kewl, I was hoping nothing too serious,
anything SuperBlock could be heart attack
level.

>> LXDE was broken,
>> and I disturbingly found Lubuntu is Gnome3 based
>> when I tried to remove Gnome3
>
> LXDE is not GNOME 3 based but I think it uses some GTK3 now. If you
> don't want GNOME 3 at all, you shouldn't be using Oneiric or Precise.
> It's probably a bad idea to try to remove GNOME pieces from any Ubuntu
> variation except for Kubuntu.
>

Previously, GTK3 was causing all sorts of problems
for me, and I was going for lightweight on a netbook,
and Powerbook G4, so I was surprised Lubuntu and/or
LXDE would use something like that.



>> I'm figuratively Bleeding Out Here on the Edge,
>> and should know better than to write emails
>> to knowledgeable people at 5 or 6 am,
>> when tired, but still struggling.
>
> Not to be rude,
> but why are you running an operating system that is
> still in alpha?

> I think you'd be happier with a stable release like
> Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" or 11.10 "Oneiric".
>

Stable is Boring...

Over the last few releases, I've only
had a few major problems running
unstable, and I do thank you all
for the help with them.

> Jeremy
>
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-- 
Jerry W