On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:01:25AM -0500, Miller Thomas wrote:
> Also many apps are supplied, but not adequately addressed in the book, e.g.,
> the Perl script capabilities and how one gets GIMP installed/running. I
> have written a Perl script sucessfully, but the GIMP area appears to require
> a compile. A pre-requiste for GIMP is the Gimp Tool kit(GTk). Is that
> included in this Distro?
apt-get install gimp
gimp
> it did not seem to address the proper shutdown procedure, i.e., using
> logout. The correct method seems to be a combination of 'logout' from the
> wm, as well as, using SU to get access to root and executing a 'shutdown -h
> now' command. This appears consistent with an O/S that is used as a server.
The fastest way is to save any unsaved work, press CONTROL-ALT-F1 to
switch to tty1, log in as root, and issue the "halt" or "reboot" command.
Also, if you switch to Login.app instead of XDM or KDM or whichever *DM
Storm uses, it has a cool feature: you can log in as "halt" or "reboot",
enter root's password, and it'll do exactly that.
Or you could switch over completely to ReiserFS, and just turn your
computer off whenever you bloody feel like. :) That's so much fun.
> Also many apps are supplied, but not adequately addressed in the book, e.g.,
Debian is up to over 6000 packages now, and Storm includes quite a few
of them. It would be impossible to include documentation for even a
majority of them. But you can always find documentation by looking
in /usr/doc/*packagename*. It's not always GOOD documentation, but
it's something. And perl scripting, or any other kind of programming,
is usually beyond the scope of any kind of guide for new users of an
operating system.
Go easy on the message quoting...
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Craig McPherson
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