[Techtalk] recommendations for distros wanted

[Billie Walsh]

Looking at

https://sourceforge.net/projects/rox/files/rox/

It appears that there hasn't been anything done with Rox since 2013. and 
that appears to be a modification to a much older version. The highest 
version number is dated 2011.



On 03/23/2019 06:13 AM, Miriam English wrote:
> That is an excellent suggestion. It hadn't occurred to me that the 
> Ubuntu folks might have fixed Rox. I'll check that out.
>
> Incidentally, it is remarkably easy to replace Rox because it comes as 
> an AppDir -- just rename the old folder and copy the new one. (Has to 
> be done in the terminal of course, as GUI file management is handled 
> by Rox itself.)
>
> Thank you,
>
>     - Miriam
>
>
> A. Mani wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:28 AM Miriam 
>> English<mim at miriam-english.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> , however Rox, its preferred file manager, has not
>>> been updated for several years and the most recent version has a very
>>> inconvenient bug, so I've been looking at perhaps moving to another
>>> distro. (I doubt my programming abilities are sufficient to fix it.)
>> Why don't you purge the package and install rox from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A Mani
>>
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>

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