-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ACK!! Please remember, Linux is *not* Windows, and one of the examples of this is that Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't tell applications what it's doing.
The *only* time that you should type Ctrl-Alt-Del is AFTER X is properly shutdown, and you have logged out of all console sessions. Hope That Help, Ron On Thursday 10 January 2002 12:58 pm, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quite a newbie to Linux and emerge mainly from a MS background. I > love Linux and use it as my primary OS though. > > I have a question with regards shutting down Linux. When I shutdown > Linux I go into tty1 and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Now this shuts > everything down including X and it's applications, however what if > I'm in the middle of say typing a document, I don't get a dialog box > responding to a close event asking me if I want to save the document > or not,etc. Does this mean that Linux applications are typically > supposed to be designed so that they automatically save whatever was > happening when they receive the TERM signal. However, the time > between a TERM and KILL signal is low, therefore if there were > applications that require a lotta time completing what they're doing, > then they may be killed before they finish their task. Could someone > explain the Shutdown process to me? > > Also I currently have Potato and I've been thinking of Upgrading to > Woddy. How would I go about that? Could I just do a apt-get upgrade?? > Would that upgrade me to Woody (Debian 2.4)....what is Sid? > > Thanks for all the help - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Adell(sp?) ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE8PehJjTz5dS9Us5wRAj0EAJjg8on3kb/IZE6ZfBZdFtlQc9m2AJ9MMowJ wdXHpq3/7K6uuq6wRFuGGA== =3pbp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
