ah, that's OK for now, as long as it works. I'm trying to build up the courage to do a full system upgrade to Rocky.latest. I hate doing upgrades, it's such a pain in the rear to get everything working again, and get all my tweaks back into place. I despise Gnome 3+, and prefer Mate. Someone (EPEL ??) built Mate for C7, but the existing binaries for C8 don't work very well, there are none that I know of for C9, and AFAIK Rocky is the only Centos clone that supports Mate. there IS Ubuntu Mate, but I am more comfy with RH-derived systems. One thing I won't have to do anymore is set up email (used to have my own domain for email, but moved and can't get a static IP anymore, decided it was too much bother to do the ddns thing) along with POP3 for my wife to use. We now just use gmail. But I see that the time for said upgrade is drawing nearer and nearer. Fred On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:22 PM Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer at uq.edu.au> wrote:> On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 21:13 -0500, Fred wrote: > > > well, as one of the earlier posters showed how, I did remove the > > existing > > one then installed the new one (the one that Zoom offers for Centos- > > 7, not > > the one for Centos-8, which has the problem you describe) and voila, > > works > > like a charm! > > Yes but that's the old version - 5.13.4.711 not the latest 5.13.7.683. > "Check for Updates" will tell you there's a new version but you'll be > stuck with that old version until you upgrade from CentOS 7 to > something newer. > > > -- > Ian > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
I've made to move to Rocky 8 after it was released and there is support for MATE and if you prefer lightdm as a window manager.? It has some minor quirks, but all in all it works just fine. I've not tried it yet but there is also a Rocky 9 MATE live image available https://docs.rockylinux.org/en/guides/desktop/mate_installation/ Pete On 2/7/23 23:53, Fred wrote:> ah, that's OK for now, as long as it works. > > I'm trying to build up the courage to do a full system upgrade to > Rocky.latest. I hate doing upgrades, it's such a pain in the rear to get > everything working again, and get all my tweaks back into place. I despise > Gnome 3+, and prefer Mate. Someone (EPEL ??) built Mate for C7, but the > existing binaries for C8 don't work very well, there are none that I know > of for C9, and AFAIK Rocky is the only Centos clone that supports Mate. > there IS Ubuntu Mate, but I am more comfy with RH-derived systems. > > One thing I won't have to do anymore is set up email (used to have my own > domain for email, but moved and can't get a static IP anymore, decided it > was too much bother to do the ddns thing) along with POP3 for my wife to > use. We now just use gmail. > > But I see that the time for said upgrade is drawing nearer and nearer. > > Fred > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 9:22 PM Ian Mortimer<i.mortimer at uq.edu.au> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 21:13 -0500, Fred wrote: >> >>> well, as one of the earlier posters showed how, I did remove the >>> existing >>> one then installed the new one (the one that Zoom offers for Centos- >>> 7, not >>> the one for Centos-8, which has the problem you describe) and voila, >>> works >>> like a charm! >> Yes but that's the old version - 5.13.4.711 not the latest 5.13.7.683. >> "Check for Updates" will tell you there's a new version but you'll be >> stuck with that old version until you upgrade from CentOS 7 to >> something newer. >> >> >> -- >> Ian >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Unencumbered by the thought process. -- Click and Clack the Tappet brothers
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Fred wrote:> I'm trying to build up the courage to do a full system upgrade to > Rocky.latest. I hate doing upgrades, it's such a pain in the rear to get > everything working again, and get all my tweaks back into place.Getting all your configuration into ansible, puppet or the like is a bit of work but a real benefit when it's time to upgrade.> I despise > Gnome 3+, and prefer Mate. Someone (EPEL ??) built Mate for C7, but the > existing binaries for C8 don't work very well, there are none that I know > of for C9, and AFAIK Rocky is the only Centos clone that supports Mate.I'm using Mate on Rocky 9 at work and on CentOS 8 stream on my laptop. Works fine for what I need. -- Ian