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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Lonni J Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:netllama@gmail.com">netllama@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="h5">On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM, James McDonald<<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Lonni J Friedman <<a href="mailto:netllama@gmail.com">netllama@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>>><br>>> I fail to understand the hype. Its Linux with a Google window manager.<br>>><br>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:07 AM, James McDonald<<a href="mailto:james@jamesmcdonald.id.au">james@jamesmcdonald.id.au</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>>> > <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html</a><br>>> ><br>
><br>><br>> Having attempted installing gOS 3.x I was whelmed of the under variety. The<br>> plus side the new Chrome OS is that it's a big name going up against M$<br>> netbook market share.<br>><br>
> I've found if I try to install a narrow boutique OS I end up installing all<br>> my favourite tools and finding I might as well have gone for a full featured<br>> distro.<br>><br>> Speaking of which I'm running Fedora 11 ATM. Still love Fed/RH<br>
> system-config-* admin utilities over Debian a2mod, update-rc.d, etc etc.<br>> Absolutely love the palimpset disk S.M.A.R.T utility (I think it's spelt<br>> like that). And Fedora seems to have gotten the network manager PPTP client<br>
> right.<br><br></div></div>I did an upgrade earlier today from F10 to F11, and its been mostly a<br>disaster. Both thunderbird & firefox crash after startup (even in<br>safe mode, even for new users). Most of my XFCE per-user settings got<br>
overwritten. There are other gems too. I think i've finally learned<br>that odd numbered releases are to be avoided.</blockquote>
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<div>It took me about 2 days to get F11 onto my box... I installed a 1/2TB drive to install on trying to stay away from the current 200GB drive the Fedora 11 partitioner was creating partitions that ended on the same number as the next one began. Overlapping on partitions is bad I'm told :)</div>
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<div>i.e. /boot was 1 to 24 / was 24 to 3xxxxxx</div>
<div>it should have been /boot 1 to 24 / 25 to 3xxxxxx</div>
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