Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

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On 02/21/07 15:44, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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!!!

Well, it's not *totally* black. It gives the machine name and a
Login: prompt. But it's not a poofy Gooey.

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

Very interesting.

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?

It's a definite start, but no.
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