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Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid



On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:05:56AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote:
>>>> Damon L. Chesser <damon@damtek.com>:
>>>>>  On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>>>> On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>>>>>>> Displeasure?  Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like?
>>>>>> It's a GUI app?
>>>>>  Very funny Ron.  Really.
>>>> No, I think he was serious, and I agree with him.  Do you want
>>>> your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked?
>>>> Especially in this nvidia crazed age?
>>> I agree with the point you are trying to make, but best to:
>>> s/nvidia/ati
>>>
>>> More especially:
>>> s/nvidia/display manager/
>>>
>>
>>
>> no kidding... have to debug why gdm (work machine, for the general
>> user...) locks the machine hard when a user logs out... sheesh. I may
>> have to teach people how to login properly. ;-O
>
> I put this at the bottom of my family members' .bashrc files.  Works  
> like a charm.
>
> if [ "$TERM" == "linux" ]; then
>     startx
>     exit
> fi

nice one. 

A

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