-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > 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....
No, just some good natured humor. > 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 But it's not The Console. Dark, cryptic, foreboding, that which makes Unix what it is... > 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. People should have to pass a competency test before being allowed to use a computer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFF3LM8S9HxQb37XmcRAvoyAJdHorqFwShxQDBbMiQUbafJOONEAKDYhQCw rR4u3925NiItK0YoSealoQ== =97F6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
