Re: [OT] Linux is different (used to be Why is setting up X so arcane?)
In article <[🔎] 20010628153333.28315.qmail@web12803.mail.yahoo.com>, Hamma
Scott wrote:
> I'm pretty new to the Linux environment myself and I
> can understand you're growing pains.
Whereas I was working with different flavours of Unix as far back as
1986. But I've never had to configure X before.
> <useful stuff>
> One thing I did learn is if your session is hung you
> can type <ALT>F2-F6 to get to another login session.
> This way, you can shut your machine down properly.
> </useful stuff>
Thanks. I did know that. The machine really was hung.
> It's just the nature of the beast. If you don't want
> to learn this new environment, I'm sure you can stay
> with Windows and not be bothered learning how to
> configure X, apache and its Secure Socket Layer, write
> Python scripts, Perl scripts, shell scripts, etc.
I have configured apache, SSL, written shell scripts, PHP, C, C++, and
Java. I'm still finding this much more difficult than I think it should
be. Maybe I've just got a mental block.
I have read about 100 pages of documentation on configuring X, and, as
I said before, understood about 50% of it. I have even tried
experimenting (and got my filesystem burned in the process).
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Nikki Locke, Trumphurst Ltd. PC & Unix consultancy & programming
nikki@trumphurst.com http://www.trumphurst.com/
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