On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:27:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 02/20/07 15:29, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:13:32PM +0000, andy wrote: > >>>> Hi all > >>>> > >>>> Potentially a dumb query but I just don't know, and there doesn't seem > >>>> to be any documented discussion I can read, so pls humor me on this: > >>>> > >>>> after Etch has done its daily update via update mngr, is it generally > >>>> considered a wise thing to reboot the computer to check the take or can > >>>> one have a reasonably good degree of confidence that as far as is > >>>> reasonable to predict, all will be well? > >>> depends on what gets upgraded (you *do* review the upgrades, > >>> right?). If you've got some new core thing (kernel, xorg, udev, etc.) > >> xorg is only core to people who still (*even* if they don't realize > >> it) think that Real Operating Systems are designed the same way that > >> MS Windows is designed. > >> > >> Your penance is to make a pilgrimage to Portland and walk up Linus' > >> driveway on your knees, while reading the Green Dragon Book. > > > > huh. check my headers you icedove-using-geek-wannabe! ;-P > > > > oh. and no its not forged. > > > > seriously though, and unfortunately, for many people it *is* > > core. Having X totally crap out on them would be a good thing, IMO. > > And I boot into the text console and fire up the GUI using > startxfce4. (There are similar commands for GNOME, KDE, fvwm, etc, > etc.) > > So, quitting/restarting X is simple, negates the need to reboot and > is *faster* than a reboot. I totally agree Ron... I too (AOL) use startxfce4 unless I'm playing around with other wm's (still suffering since wmii moved to up to 3, though I see wmii2 is still around... maybe its time to go back). In fact, I find my self using more and more stuff in xterms and if it wasn't for having to do real work (book-keeping in gnucash) I'd likely not be running X hardly at all. A
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