Re: Another failure

2011-06-01 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/01/2011 01:59 PM, BeartoothHOS wrote: > But I may yet try shifting the next most expendable machine to an > Xfce spin if F15, or even a KDE4 one. Can you run Gnome apps in Xfce? Yes. Yum will pull in whatever parts of Gnome are needed when you install a Gnome app, as long as the depe

Re: Another failure

2011-06-01 Thread BeartoothHOS
On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:03:10 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/31/2011 01:50 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> I couldn't face the effort to enable KDE4 or Xfce via ssh again, nor >> the learning curve that would follow. > > I can't speak for anybody else, of course, but I can tell you that when > I migrated

Re: Another failure

2011-05-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/31/2011 01:50 PM, Beartooth wrote: > I couldn't face the effort to enable KDE4 or Xfce via ssh again, > nor the learning curve that would follow. I can't speak for anybody else, of course, but I can tell you that when I migrated to XFCE there was very little of a learning curve. Almost ev

Another failure

2011-05-31 Thread Beartooth
On an expendable (and thoroughly backed up, fully updated) Athlon XP 2800+ with 1.9 GB of memory, running F 14, I asked here on April 25 about preupgrade. Having gotten two prompt and helpful replies, I went ahead, getting an install of F15 Beta. Starting April 27, I began a th