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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Packaging Linux
- Message-ID: <By2owF.FII@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:41:02 GMT
- References: <17612@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Nov20.160444.16116@scifi.uucp> <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu>
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- Quoting jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) in article <1992Nov20.184332.4802@news.columbia.edu>:
- > Perhaps an X command which stops x, syncs, halts, and prints "it is
- >now safe to turn off your computer" would be a good idea, though.
-
- I've always thought that since anyone who can log in at the console can
- access the power switch, they should be able to shut down the system
- with no special privileges. How about a ``shutdown'' command that can
- be run by any user logged in at the console? And an account called
- ``shutdown'' with no password that runs it, after shutting down X if
- it's running? And a nice xshutdown command that provides a pretty front
- end to it all, and allows warnings and time-outs and so forth.
-
- Is there any way to keep X running while the rest of the system is ready
- to die? If not, any way of doing pretty graphics for the ``click *here*
- to abort, click *here* to reboot, you may now power down'' sort of
- instructions?
-
- I suspect that, without some sort of NextStep/NewWave Unix hiding
- system, Joe User isn't going to buy it just yet. Making Unix easy
- enough to *administer* is an even bigger nightmare. Linux ain't hitting
- the general desktop just yet.
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