whee, i should really be doing work right now :) On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0100, Christian Perle wrote: > > > diving into the knoppix specifics, you have: > > > > - - a modified init > > Needed for ejecting the CD at shutdown. take a look at the workaround proposal i just posted. feasible? > > - - don't hack up /etc/inittab <-- this is the worst thing you can do to a > > System V system :-) > > Maybe the X session part can be moved to a separated init script. i think it could. have an /etc/init.d script su to knoppix and run startx, right? > > - - apt-get install kdm > > Remember, passwords are disabled. No one can log in normally. > For security reasons, it has to stay that way. > > And even with autologin this would force everyone to use kdm just for > starting an X session (even when not using KDE). Not very nice. > Knoppix is not just KDE! > (no, I am *not* a GNOME fan) i completely agree on these two points. plus, there was what i mentioned about kdm requiring all of the kde libs even if it didn't really need it... sean
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