-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 13:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:13:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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.
And I boot into the text console and fire up the GUI using startxfce4. (There are similar commands for GNOME, KDE, fvwm, etc, etc.) So, quitting/restarting X is simple, negates the need to reboot and is *faster* than a reboot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF3J0VS9HxQb37XmcRAl5gAJ9xeMojiGgu7deCOl4G8OowGtzoIQCfbTrv m3uXxodSfh32MZB+FGVGKOI= =ae0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]