-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 15:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Looks like a flame war to me.... >> No, just some good natured humor. > > indeed. > > :) > >>> 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... > > just a black screen and a blinking cursor mwuhahahaha!!!
Well, it's not *totally* black. It gives the machine name and a Login: prompt. But it's not a poofy Gooey. >>> 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.... > > > I can't remember how I heard about it but this is cool: > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6282 Very interesting. >>> 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. > > isn't that what the console is? It's a definite start, but no. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3NzJS9HxQb37XmcRAt5OAJ9wDPR3TYvXX3kchEOVJ84MH4YekgCfW9En xKP+kGKRNVtn5mnSLL7RyeI= =tcvf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
