Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

10 Mar 2016 23:56:34, you wrote to Shawn Highfield:

 SH>> I've settled on a fedora distro, it updates when I tell it too,
 SH>> not in the background when it wants like the ubuntu ones.
 MK> I think the Debian-type ones, such as Ubuntu, tend to be more
 MK> automagic or so-called user-friendly than the others.

Those systems simply don't allow the users to do anything other than the
developers explicitly allowed them to do.

"Make a system which may be used by an idiot, and only idiot would use it" :-)

 MK> I haven't looked at Fedora for awhile now but the last time I did I
 MK> preferred it over Debian and/or any of it's clones.

Sad to say, but now the Fedora seems to also be injured by this cancer...

 MK> I do have a small 7" monitor I plan to hook up to a small Atom based
 MK> Zoltac and use it as a low power digital 'player' of some sort

http://m.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=eeepc


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