[Techtalk] Why is life without X important? (was: Re: info)
Julie
txjulie at austin.rr.com
Sat Sep 7 00:18:49 EST 2002
"Caitlyn M. Martin" wrote:
>
> Hi, Carla,
> >
> > Is this really an issue?
>
> To anyone who has been a sysadmin for a long time, yes, it's a real
> issue. If X stops working you need to be able to live at the command
> line.
You mean like the machine I just built with a Radeon 7500 graphics
card and a version of XFree86 which didn't support it? And the
hung IRQ 11 which was keeping my NICs from working?
People who assume computers work assume too much ...
--
Julianne Frances Haugh Life is either a daring adventure
txjulie at austin.rr.com or nothing at all.
-- Helen Keller
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