Hi, ColonelPanic. 51,99 Euros ~= CAN$76 Hum... A week's groceries for a person living alone, or a tankful of gas for the car. I think I'll pass. But thanks for the info. BFN. It's a lot for me too musher. I usually wait until they have a special offer (which will probably happen sooner or later), a...

I've also installed the latest version of Zenwalk, 15.0 (released last week). It has a very dark default theme which might not be to everyone's taste, and limited options as standard to change it if you don't like it; however, it works well and I've had no problems with it so far. Also, being based ...

Softmaker Office 2021 has now been released; https://www.softmaker.com/en/ According to the pricing page it starts at £51.99 even for an upgrade from the previous version (which I have and which still works well), so I'm not in any hurry to sign up for the new version. They do still offer a 30-day t...

I also submit then edit and rarely ever use preview. If it helps anyone else, I do the same thing. I post and then edit and pretty much never use preview on here; the downside is that my posts are typically full of typos and punctuation mistakes for the first 10 minutes after they're posted (like t...

I've got Softmaker 2018 (the paid-for version). I generally wait until the company has a special offer and get it then; I think for what I pay (usually about £18 ) it's good value for an office suite. P.S. I'm currently testing the latest beta of Office 2021 (expires on June 15th) and so far I haven...

I've recently installed the release candidate of OpenSUSE 15.2 Leap (the so-called "non-rolling" version of the distro). It doesn't have as big a collection of software in its repositories as, say, Ubuntu or Debian but there's enough available for most daily tasks; it's also proving to be ...

Hey, nothing wrong with Filofax; I still use mine too Pen and paper are still the best for some purposes.

I agree with Flash; a connection that fast wouldn't be any use to me. I only need one fast enough to be able to watch a tennis match, for example, in real time.

Another good one; Exton’s take on MX, which he released recently and has LXQt as its main window manager although it keeps the original XFce too. He's also upgraded the original Debian packages to the forthcoming Debian 11, and added his own kernel. It looks good with its light grey theme and McLare...

I'm still agnostic on the systemd question as to be honest I don't know enough about it to be able to give an informed opinion. It's good that we still have the choice though. I believe AntiX is still systemd free, as are Devuan and Slackware; I don't know about MX but I think it still gives you the...

If you must take someone to task for what they've said on here (and there may well be times when it is necessary); 1 / Try private messages first. 2 / If you say anything on the board about the point of contention, have the good grace to apologise if the person you've criticised points out how and w...

I've just installed the latest version of Absolute (released yesterday), which is one of the few distros left which is based on Slackware, and for the most part the things I had to say about it when I used it a couple of years ago are still true now. It has LibreOffice, which I've struggled to run i...

Good thread. I'm not in any hurry to download the forthcoming Ubuntu version even though I've been testing the beta; I couldn't get xfburn to work in it as by the error message's own admission it isn't set up to burn. [In which case, what's the point of it?] Also, it seems that some of the programs ...

This is (at least) the 3rd reference to Dedoimedo's review, previously mentioned by ally (in the BionicPup64 thread) and myself (in jafadmin's "WOW ---> The Bionic Pups <--- WOW" thread). Careful, lest 666philb start charging us for his work, LOL! Apologies (if they are required). I didn'...

They tend to live on large areas of open land Thanks, though I think they might be getting rarer too. I was at university in Leicester and I remember that one of the local villages (Hallaton if I remember rightly) used to bake hare pie every Easter Monday. The last time I looked it up on Wikipedia,...

Here's a review of Bionic Pup on Dedoimedo's website. Dedo is very complimentary about the distro;

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pup ... pup-8.html

Thanks everyone. I don't think I've ever seen a hare (they aren't common where I live), though I've seen plenty of rabbits.

Stay safe and well too,

CP (posted from ttuuxxx's Classic Pup).

Not an expert but with one window open (this one), the home tab and nothing else, Pale Moon's showing about 447 MB in Conky and 183 processes running, which isn't too bad for 2020. With 3 GB of Ram though you should be able to run it OK; that's what my old machine had. Pale Moon has an *add-on which...

Hi again Baldronicus, thanks for replying. I don't have any other suggestions to make except that a similar thing happened when I tried to install non-free packages in Debian 10 using gdebi. Here's my thread on the Bunsen forums about it, and I would point to post 11 in that thread in particular; &q...