On Friday 20 July 2001 23:12, Expert wrote:
> O sorry, I meant, it crashes by itself, where Linux has far less
> problems (at least on my end) like win95 gave me.
>
> To each their own I say, I just choose to use Linux.
>
> On Friday 20 July 2001 12:48 pm, so spoke Michael Leone:
> > >I prefer linux because windows crashes.
> >
> > You can make linux crash; I have. :-) I've had X crashes; I've had kernel
> > panics; etc.
> >
> > Linux is not totally immune to that stuff; it just happens SO MUCH LESS
> > than Windows. (well, Win9x, anyway - Win2K is pretty damn stable).
I just did something interesting. I editted /etc/sysconfig/desktop, changing
KDE to GNOME and rebooted. Now /etc/X11/prefdm is supposed to start the
proper desk top manager depending on this value, GNOME resulting in GDM. KDM
started, but GNOME ran when I left default in the session pulldown (probably
because the "exec `which $preferred` $* >/dev/null 2>&1" didn't result in
the process being overwritten, but why does kdm pick it up for default?)
I was just fooling around, trying to ditch KDM (I know, rearrange
if which kdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
exec `which kdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
elif which gdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
exec `which gdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
elif which xdm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
exec `which xdm` $* >/dev/null 2>&1
fi)
, which is the latest thing I thought I would try to get my mouse not to
evaperate when I switched between systems (and xscreensaver is behaving funny
if not I am not root -- freezes and the like).
Just interesting.
mg
