Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:48:27PM -0600, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video > card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now > (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an > xterm. The machin

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my > video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are a

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Jonathan Hayward writes: > The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue > floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a > text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). I agree that this a serious bug. The authorities don't ag

Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Jonathan Hayward
Linus Torvalds is standing at the Pearly Gates as people are coming in. He asks the first person, "What's your IQ?" "150." "I'd like your opinion on some things I've been thinking about in termsof tools to partially automate the process of porting a kernel to a new architecture." The two of the