Re: a dumb query? pls humor me
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On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote:
> 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....
No, just some good natured humor.
> 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
But it's not The Console. Dark, cryptic, foreboding, that which
makes Unix what it is...
> 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.
People should have to pass a competency test before being allowed to
use a computer.
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