>> Actually, it's MaX, but that's nit-picking. :-P
> True...MaX is still an LEM list. I think most of us
> use *nix on a Mac after it's run its useful MacOS life...
> how many buy a brand new Mac to run YDL on? Probably
> not as many now with OS X.
Right. I should have been thinking low-end though, since
my latest acquisition is a P100 laptop now running Debian.
At home though, I run YDL on a beige G3... with 416MB of
RAM, I tend to forget that RAM is an issue for many folks.
While the laptop is maxed out at 40MB, I gave it 200MB of
swap & expect it to be slow once in a while.
>> make the last line of your wife's .login (or .profile)
>> file exec startx and see if that does what you want.
> That's what I was thinking of. The problem is I need a
> ".quitx" file to put the "logout" command in. :)
Just for grins, I grabbed the aforementioned laptop, typed
"chsh -s /usr/bin/X11/startx guest" then logged in as guest.
It went straight to X all right, but you can guess what
happened when I told it I wanted an xterm (think "start
login shell"). If your wife doesn't ever use a shell, you
could change her login shell to startx... even if she
does use a shell, you could modify the "start xterm"
command to run a real shell in place of the default.
Quitting X will log her out (I tried it). Now that I think
about it, I'll set up the guest account like that....
> Looking at $50 for memory for an old SE/30 (for example)
> sounds pretty cheap, until you realize that $50 fetches
> at least 5x as much for a much newer and much more capable
> machine.
If you have that more capable machine, that is. My last RAM
order was 256MB for the G3, and 256MB for an 8100. They came
out almost even -- the way prices fluctuate, you can get some
bargains if you're vigilant or lucky. In my case, SDRAM
prices had just gone up while 72-pin SIMMs went down.
>> I'm a Lewis fan too...
> "Mere Christianity" is on my to-do. Most of my sig quotes
> tend political.
Definitely worth the read. "Screwtape Letters" is also a
classic, almost 60 years old & not a bit outdated. The
best political writing has something in it to offend anyone,
IMO....
--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
-- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
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