Hello Everyone (I'm doing a reply to all - for this email) *SMILE* & thank you Paul, for your nice email. *GRIN* <div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/4 Paul Shirren <<a href="mailto:shirro@shirro.com">shirro@shirro.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Peter,<div class="Ih2E3d"> Peter Williams wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> To my great happiness (poor wording, I know!!!) - my Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) OS is now working almost perfectly!!! *BIG SMILE & HAPPY GRIN**!!! </blockquote> </div> Well done. Can you please not refer to Mint Linux as Ubuntu Mint. Mint and Ubuntu are two separate projects with their own developers, forums and mailing lists.</blockquote><div> Okay, I will try to keep that in mind and refer to my OS by its correct name; "Mint Linux". I get quite a bit confused about its correct name. I think that the Mint Linux ppl also call it Ubuntu Mint Linux etc etc. :-) There seems to be quite a lot of jargon & buzz-words etc involved for the OS { Not that I'm objecting! SMILE }. Also, I find that the sheer volume of information and facts, knowledge and 'wisdom' of the Gurus developing the Mint Linux project -- well, it's information overload!! Too much for me to know where to begin looking. *SIGH* Note: I'm still only a Linux Newbie although I've used many many different computer systems over my life... since I was a young teenager (or even younger!). Our family's first computer was a Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) with 16 KB of RAM expandable to 32KB RAM. Actually, it was a pretty good machine -- it had a 6502 processor and it communicated with peripherals with a IEEE-488 port and also had a programmable 'user port' !!! It was amazing!!! And also very powerful. Actually, it's OS was Commodore PET BASIC which was written by Micro$oft! and was a combination of BASIC programming language with DOS commands included also!!! It was powerful but it bit tricky to learn!!!   [ THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!! - e.g. circa the 1970's ]  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We are all in the same big happy open source family but there are issues of branding and trademark. The Ubuntu trademark is owned by Canonical and I am sure they would not want it to be diluted. I am sure the Mint people are proud of their work and feel the same.<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d"> Thank you for explaining that. I'm very very pleased with my OS - although it still has its little querks (spelling?!). The nice people at Canonical are amazingly clever and I admire and thank them!!!! ### HAPPY GRIN ###   <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Then I discovered that the repositories were wrong!!! The were pointing to Ubuntu repositories instead of Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) ones. </blockquote> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I don't know if this is a consequence of not understanding that Ubuntu and Mint are two separate projects. </blockquote><div> Yes, it probably is!!! (SMILE). I'll admit that I'm still a newbie beginner at Mint Linux; although I'll admit that I've been 'learning' Linux for more than one year!!! I'm just happy to get help from the those wonderfully clever and friendly Linux users!!!!!!!!!!!  </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I had a Ford made by Mazda. You could probably replace suspension and engine parts with Mazda parts but other would have been to Ford specs. A person in that situation might ask about after market accessories on a Mazda forum and get friendly and useful advice but might also get completely misleading advice if Ford had changed the spec on some parts. </blockquote></div> That's an interesting analogy, and I think I understand. Thanks for that. #SMILE# Yours Sincerely, PEW - poet, computer geek, amiable human being and Christian -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)