Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> A
Looks like a flame war to me....
This computer boots strait into KDE because the installer put in the
init scripts to start kdm. (I used bootcheat: install tasks="standard,
kde-desktop"). If I upgrade something like Xorg (which I did earlier
today from sid), all I do is open a tty and login, then type
"/etc/init.d/kdm stop" and that stops X, then I start it up again with
/etc/init.d/kdm start, log out and go back to X.
It's not a difficult thing to do. I will admit that I always have a
terminal (Konsole) running on one of my desktops, so going CLI is
frequent. I find it also easier to hit alt-f2 and type the name of the
program (or part of it) to run something than to find it in the k-menu.
You have to understand that a whole generation has grown up without
knowing what a prompt is, and for those people X is the operating
system. If they only knew the power of the CLI....
Be thankful that they even know what GNU/Linux is.
Joe
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