Slink upgrade and xwindows
The Slink upgrade went great for me.
Upgraded without rebooting. A couple of days later I needed to reboot
to run a windows program (it had been 2 weeks). I had read "The great X
reorganization" but forgot to remove xdm and xfs. So when I did reboot
I got the xwindows login which is why I am writing this.
I think that installing xdm and xfs as part of the upgrade is a very bad
idea for several reasons:
1) This is a very big change to my system, I have never had these
packages before- I wanted an upgrade on what I had. This is a
fundamental change in how my system works that I didn't ask for or want.
2) Now the stability of my system is only as good as the stability of
X. Linux is a very stable system but xwindows has occasional
problems. With these packages installed overall stability is
compromised in the name of "user friendliness" Things like this are
the reason that I left MS in the first place.
3) If you want to do any kind of maintenance that requires X to be shut
down now you have to mess with getting out of
it- its an unneeded extra step (which was not asked for).
It didn't take me too long to figure out how to get rid of this
unsolicited nuisance but I had read "The great X reorganization" which
takes a while and I doubt if many people did. In the mean time I had
logged onto X as root (something I very very seldom do, never- without
having sued to root which is not possible with this config) When I
tried to get out of X my machine locked up, something that has not
happened in I don't know how long. I had to manually fix my root fs-
SHHHEEEEEEESH!
Oh, now this is *stable*, this is
*better*-------------------------NOT!!!!!
well, how about-
This
SUCKS---------------------------------------------------------YES!!!!!
I must say that I am really disappointed that debian's install went to
this, I would expect something like this from RH or someone known as the
"user friendly" dist. But *not* from debian.
Oh well, just thought I'd let my opinion be known.
Still love Debian =)
Bill Lacy
PS: "User friendly" OSs should come with replacement reset switches (for
later ;)
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