-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +0000, andy wrote: >>>> Hi all >>>> >>>> Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem >>>> to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: >>>> >>>> after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally >>>> considered a wise thing to reboot the computer to check the take or can >>>> one have a reasonably good degree of confidence that as far as is >>>> reasonable to predict, all will be well? >>> depends on what gets upgraded (you *do* review the upgrades, >>> right?). If you've got some new core thing (kernel, xorg, udev, etc.) >> xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize >> it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that >> MS Windows is designed. >> >> Your penance is to make a pilgrimage to Portland and walk up Linus' >> driveway on your knees, while reading the Green Dragon Book. > > huh. check my headers you icedove-using-geek-wannabe! ;-P > > oh. and no its not forged. > > seriously though, and unfortunately, for many people it *is* > core. Having X totally crap out on them would be a good thing, IMO. > > A
Looks like a flame war to me.... This computer boots strait into KDE because the installer put in the init scripts to start kdm. (I used bootcheat: install tasks="standard, kde-desktop"). If I upgrade something like Xorg (which I did earlier today from sid), all I do is open a tty and login, then type "/etc/init.d/kdm stop" and that stops X, then I start it up again with /etc/init.d/kdm start, log out and go back to X. It's not a difficult thing to do. I will admit that I always have a terminal (Konsole) running on one of my desktops, so going CLI is frequent. I find it also easier to hit alt-f2 and type the name of the program (or part of it) to run something than to find it in the k-menu. You have to understand that a whole generation has grown up without knowing what a prompt is, and for those people X is the operating system. If they only knew the power of the CLI.... Be thankful that they even know what GNU/Linux is. Joe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF3KujiXBCVWpc5J4RAkyMAJ44lzKXFUm+8WriXFkJXubpQILhWACfVSIL 7U3mi3bWpsqcMoGWlRTlads= =F4Sb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
