Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew Kane
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: > >> As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can >> attest that we run into these cases frequently. > > Interesting data point, thanks. hat sort of vintage of random h

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 07:51 -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > ...I've been > > > told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users > > > owning/running hardware

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 05:49:59PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:51:48AM -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: > > As someone who deals with a lot of random donated hardware, I can > > attest that we run into these cases frequently. It may be rare that > > new systems lack these capa

Re: Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:51:48AM -0700, Andrew Kane wrote: > > > ...I've been > > > told multiple times that we still have a non-negligible set of users > > > owning/running hardware that can't do DVDs. > > > > The set of hardware which can't boot from DVDs *or* boot from a USB > > stick must sur

Fwd: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-25 Thread Andrew Kane
From: Andrew Kane Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:55 AM Subject: Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 13:31 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > ...I've been > > told multiple times that we still have a non-negl