Re: Another "testing" vs "unstable" question
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:10:30PM -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
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> On Sunday 20 June 2004 11:25, Kent West wrote:
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> > In the meantime, use something other than KDE, such as Gnome, icewm,
> > wmaker, fluxbox, ion, twm, sawfish, saffire, xfce, qvwm etc etc etc.
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> 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.
>
Never had a computer that won't boot due to something that wasn't my
fault (and even that was hard to achieve file system corruption), and I
believe except for one time (my fault) I could still log in using single
user mode or worst case scenario using init=/bin/bash (never had to use
that one either).
> I'm not trying to be difficult, just learn. Obviously, you more experienced
> types have been through this; how do you handle it.
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