On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:01:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 14:29, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > Looks like a flame war to me.... > > No, just some good natured humor. indeed. :) > > > 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... just a black screen and a blinking cursor mwuhahahaha!!! > > > 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.... I can't remember how I heard about it but this is cool: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6282 > > > > 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. isn't that what the console is? A
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