Distrohoppers' Digest Episode 020
Introductions
Hosts: Tony Hughes, Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle
Monthly Foibles
Updates: mentions of Lubuntu, OpenMandriva, Void, Solus, Endeavour
Beautiful Failures: ExLight, OpenMandriva Lx 4.2, Project Trident
Reviews: Bluestar, UbuntuDDE Remix
New Releases
Feedback
Announcements
Closing
MONTHLY FOIBLES ...wherein we discuss what did and didn’t work for us this month…
Moss -
I have gotten comments about my tendency to delete some programs,
including LibreOffice, immediately after installation. To me, it makes
sense to do it before you run the updates, because some of those
programs, especially LibreOffice, are quite large and
take up quite a bit of time and space in the updates, and if you remove
them first, they don’t update. I know Chris Fisher has mentioned he
doesn’t use any office. If you are like that, you may also want to
remove CUPS prior to doing updates - or just run
Bodhi, which leaves the printing package out altogether. Other things
to consider removing include Thunderbird -- again, if you don’t use it. sudo apt-get purge packagename* is all you need....More
