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Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question



On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 12:10:30 -0500
Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> wrote:
>On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote:
>>
>> In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm,
>> wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc.
> 
> That works for KDE, but what about the reported problems where the
> machine locks / won't boot / crashes / etc.? Fixing it without a
> computer is problematic at best <g>.  Even waiting for a fix (go without
> a computer for a few days?) doesn't seem feasible as loading the fix
> requires a running computer.

This is where things like boot/rescue floppies, or distro CDs that
you can boot off of and install modules (e.g. NIC module) from, come
in very handy.

-c

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