On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:12:55PM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >seriously though, and unfortunately, for many people it *is* > >core. Having X totally crap out on them would be a good thing, IMO. > > > > Well, it happened to me; but I did not consider it A Good Thing, > as it almost hung the box. I had to log on in an F terminal to recover > my data and move it to my laptop which had a functioning gui. > > I couldn't get Xfree86 started again (this was a Sarge box). > Sometime next month I will install Etch on that box. Maybe by then RC2 > will be available, rather than wait for Etch stable. (I know Etch > stable is on its way, and so is Christmas.) > dang, Ken, gettin' behind on the reading there? ;-) Of course, I was speaking rhetorically about the benefits that many people would gain from actually learning how their computer works. Having a non-functionging X system could help in that. I have no desire to see someone's X system bork and take the whole system down or lose data. A
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