Dmitry wrote:
>
> Well I know about colors, but why do you need them at all - that is my
> question. I don't know of any other distro using similar concepts:
> Xandros on Eee, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenMoko, Gentoo, RedHat - none is using
> a concept of two separate modes for installs. I wonder how did
"ext Dmitry S. Makovey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ryan Abel wrote:
>> To anybody reading using Red Pill mode, please don't. If you aren't
>> absolutely positive of what it's going to do, then you're just going
>> to get yourself in trouble. You don't need it and you don't want it,
>> so don't
"ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One colour pill is for ordinary users. They get packages that are safe
> to use.
>
> The other is for system hackers who know what they're doing. They also
> get packages that are not safe to use, in case they need them to do
> things the
"ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is the reason for the two modes - one gives you the sanitised
> view, one gives you everything. I fully agree with blue-pill mode for
> end-users; but I don't understand why red-pill's needed: if you're a
> power user, I can't imagine Hildon Ap
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, sometimes the Application manager is the only tool you have:
> xterm might not be there, or you can not login as root. It would be
> frustrating to not be able to bootstrap yourself into a root shell
> just because
"ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message
> more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event
> of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)?
Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 16:24:35 Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "ext Andrew Flegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message
> > more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event
> > of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by po
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:51 PM, kenneth marken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> or mod so that there is a power user mode that shows more info about the
> packages, but do not show the system related ones that red pill is there
> to protect.
What's the use case that that'd support, though? I conside
"ext Denis Dimick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While I'm not sure I'm in Red Pill Mode, I did my update from the
> command line over SSH; a really STUPID ting to do.
On a Maemo device, yes. In general, no. Updating while logged in over
the network must work in any half-serious OS.
(Red-pill
Marius,
I agree that updating over a network should, and does work from a "normal"
Linux distro, however, I'm not sure it's going to work on Maemo anytime
soon; I'm guessing the small memory footprint prevents some of the
applications from not killing off a SSH session when there's an upgrade. I'd
Hi,
ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message
>> more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event
>> of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)?
>
> Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent: on the n
On 10/7/08, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
>
> > Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent: on the next start
> > of the AM, it would be back in blue-pill mode.
>
> Sounds good to me.
Agreed. Sounds like the best way of balancing the features ag
On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
>>> True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message
>>> more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event
>>> of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)?
>>
>> Y
Marius Vollmer wrote:
>> True. Perhaps we (as a community) should try pushing this message
>> more: red-pill mode is intended as a rescue environment in the event
>> of b0rkage; not for every day use (even by power users)?
>>
>
> Yes. What about making red-pill mode non-persistent: on the nex
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