Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

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

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