On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks Rich. The picture is getting clearer and other than getting my >> backup SSD installation up to date it's good to know there's no >> difficult requirements for me to deal with at this time. Being that I >> have been (for the last 5-6 years anyway) a 'stable' Gentoo user it's >> to my advantage if things stay basically the same over time. >> >> After your and Canek's responses it's clear that within my framework I >> won't be moving to eudev or mdev. The only systemd question I might >> need to answer going forward is for my dad's machine. He's got 15 >> years of email traffic in Evolution and I've not investigated running >> Evolution in any desktop environment other than Gnome. There's no way >> at this point to move him away from Evolution so I just need to figure >> out over time (the next year maybe) how to best deal with that. > > Please don't top post. >
Sorry. I seldom do that and don't know why I did that time. > I've been using Evolution for more than 10 years, always with GNOME, > but I'm pretty sure you can run it in every other DE. > Probably true. The bar I need to hurdle, probably not much of a jump, would be getting any new DE to simply look enough like what he currently has in Gnome 2. I suspect that XFCE with identical wallpaper and a little thought about placing the right app-start icons on the desktop would be enough to give me 'plausible deniability' about whatever changes I actually made under the hood. Leaving out the issue of password changes I hope few folks have to deal with the phone call where, after 10 years of no changes, a loved one calls you and asks "What is this screen that is asking for my User Name and Password want me to do? I don't remember..." I am so thankful for both the remote administration capabilities of Linux and the security model/lack of viruses. I cannot imagine how painful my life would be today if he was still using Windows living 350 miles away. Cheers, Mark
