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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br />---------- Forwarded Message ----------<br /><br />Subject: Re: [Bradford] Linux Help Please!<br />Date: Monday 06 January 2014, 14:47:32<br />From: Brian A <bradlug@techchico.org.uk><br />To: Nick Rhodes <nick@ngrhodes.co.uk><br /><br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">I have just checked my Google Calendar to find the date of the next meeting. The 'IT Stuff' Calendar was there but not BradLUG. I checked the web site and that is the same - no BradLUG meeting date.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">The fly in the ointment now, for a Linux installation, is if the computer has UEFI. Unless it can simply set to 'Legacy' then the installation is going to be far more difficult - just as Microsoft hoped of course. </p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">So I'd be interested to know, if anyone knows how, how to install a Linux distro, under UEFI, that hasn't paid the Microsoft fine for a certificate. For my part I will never want to use Windows but it can be useful to keep it on disk so as to retain warranty on new computers and if I was to do an install for someone who wants to retain Windows for whatever reason.</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Brian</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">On 6 January 2014 14:07, Nick Rhodes <<a href="mailto:nick@ngrhodes.co.uk"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">nick@ngrhodes.co.uk</span></a>> wrote:<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:5px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"> Debian at-least gives you a "Yes do as I say" confirmation for<br />removing key packages.<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:5px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><br />On 6 January 2014 13:22, John R. Hudson <<a href="mailto:j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">j.r.hudson@virginmedia.com</span></a>> wrote:<br />> On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 11:53 +0000, David Spencer wrote:<br />>> And reduce the number of such key packages... and distinguish better<br />>> between install, upgrade and remove use cases... and make it easier to<br />>> rollback changes... and mitigate the consequences of removal... and<br />>> have the tools fall back gracefully if components or package state<br />>> data are unavailable... and... and...<br />>><br />> Perhaps it would be worth having a session at the next meeting on the<br />> options. openSUSE appears to have two separate options - command line<br />> and GUI - so that if one goes down the other is available.<br />><br />> On one occasion (the only one in over eight years of using SUSE and<br />> openSUSE) when someone borked an update to a package, they simply<br />> published a command line sequence to restore the missing functionality.<br />><br />> John<br />> --<br />><br />><br />><br />> _______________________________________________<br />> Bradford mailing list<br />> <a href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</span></a><br />> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</span></a><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Bradford mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</span></a><br /><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</span></a><br /></p>
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