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Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date 2015-04-06 16:33 +1200
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <060420151633354871%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <mfqdu3$v64$1@dont-email.me> <vilain-F213AF.14571405042015@news.individual.net> <mfsel4$pmb$1@dont-email.me> <060420151157192862%YourName@YourISP.com> <mft06u$3mf$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <mft06u$3mf$1@dont-email.me>, sctvguy1
<sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:57:19 +1200, Your Name wrote:
> > In article <mfsel4$pmb$1@dont-email.me>, sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net>
> > wrote:
> >> On Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:57:14 -0700, Michael Vilain wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> You sound just like me!  I just got my new(to me) iMac 20" that came
> >> >> with 10.6.8.  Since Linux is my main OS on all my
> >> >> computers(Scientific Linux 6.6), I upgraded to OSX 10.10.2.  I had
> >> >> over 4 thousand plus iPhotos from my old G4 and over 600 iTunes. 
> >> >> Everything transferred over well, and I am enjoying the iMac.
> >> > 
> >> > I asked my boss what the difference is between a SL 6.6 system with a
> >> > 3.18 kernal and SL 7.  He said "they're the same--the libraries you
> >> > need to run that kernel were upgraded.  Aside from still being able
> >> > to install el6 RPMs and that there are a lot more of them than el7, I
> >> > don't know what it gets you.  You're essentially running SL 7 (and
> >> > beyond since it's kernel is 3.10).  Oh, yeah.  The base filesystem is
> >> > xfs, signed kernel modules for secure UEFI boot, no i386 support, and
> >> > systemd.
> >> 
> >> I am not running SL7 because it is only 64bit, and according to
> >> SL/CentOS forums, is buggy.  I am also on ElRepo kernel repo, and am
> >> running the newest kernel, 3.18.3, I think!  Plus, SL 6.x is supported
> >> until 2020, and it is running pure GNOME 2, which I prefer.  I tried
> >> the new MATE desktop, but prefer GNOME 2.  I do not have systemd, and
> >> am running ext4 as my file system.  More reasons that I do not want to
> >> run SL7.  My Thinkpad T400s do NOT have UEFI and I will never have a
> >> computer that supports that crap!
> > 
> > SL = Snow Leopard ... you should probably use a different abbreviation
> > for Scientific Linux, maybe SciLi.   :-)
> 
> Sorry, I was replying to Michael Vilain who was commenting on SL
> (Scientific Linux 6.6 vs. 7).  I assume that he runs Linux, as he knows a 
> lot about the distro, the kernel, etc.

Yep, I knew that, but it is a Mac system newsgroup and there are a lot
of dimbulbs around here (some of them are barely capable of reading the
current message, let alone the ones you're replying to) so they will
get confused.  :-)

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  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 21:02 -0700
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  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> - 2015-04-05 04:33 +0000
    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-04-05 14:57 -0700
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