[Bradford] Fwd: Re: Linux Help Please!

[John R. Hudson]

At our last meeting, we had not had confirmation of our bookings for
2014; I assume that is why nothing has been entered. I am assuming that
the next meeting will be on 20th - that is what we asked for.

John
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On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 15:29 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Linux Help Please!
> Date: Monday 06 January 2014, 14:47:32
> From: Brian A <bradlug at techchico.org.uk>
> To: Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk>
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> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Brian
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> On 6 January 2014 14:07, Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> wrote:
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>  Debian at-least gives you a "Yes do as I say" confirmation for
> removing key packages.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6 January 2014 13:22, John R. Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 11:53 +0000, David Spencer wrote:
> >> And reduce the number of such key packages... and distinguish
> better
> >> between install, upgrade and remove use cases... and make it easier
> to
> >> rollback changes... and mitigate the consequences of removal... and
> >> have the tools fall back gracefully if components or package state
> >> data are unavailable... and... and...
> >>
> > Perhaps it would be worth having a session at the next meeting on
> the
> > options. openSUSE appears to have two separate options - command
> line
> > and GUI - so that if one goes down the other is available.
> >
> > On one occasion (the only one in over eight years of using SUSE and
> > openSUSE) when someone borked an update to a package, they simply
> > published a command line sequence to restore the missing
> functionality.
> >
> > John
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