[Cialug] Linux on locked machines

Sean Flattery sean.r.flattery at gmail.com
Tue May 15 12:58:18 CDT 2012


I'm pretty sure CentOS still comes with Gnome 2.  Mint has a fork of Gnome
2 called MATE that you could use.  BTW Unity has an application tab at the
bottom of the screen to show your most used apps.


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> Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:49:00 -0500
> From: jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Linux on locked machines
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> Thanks for everyone's input.  I think I'll see if it will let me boot USB
> as I really don't want to touch the system any more than necessary.  If I
> can get it to work I've got an internal SD card reader as well...I might
> try to do some I/O tests and see if a fast SD card would be about the same
> or any better than USB and if I can boot that.
>
> Lastly, does anyone know if there's a "newer" Ubuntu distro that comes
> pre-packed with GNOME still?  From what I've used of it I friggen' hate
> Unity.  Or am I missing something in Unity...I can't find any type of
> "programs" menu that has all my programs listed.  Just the search box
> feature.
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