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 it
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 use it.
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 App Mgr
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 the
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
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 power
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 consider
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 mode
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 next
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 against the
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)?
Yes. What about
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 next start
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