On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 09:53:11PM +0530, K. Ghosh wrote: > > As I had promised, I took up installation of RH7.2 on my > P-I(166/32). My PC was overwhelmed, and could only crawl. > So, back I came to my PCQL7.1. I wonder if Grub had any- > thing to do with the speed -
Very unlikely, the newer kernels get rather choked with 32 mb at 166 ... > after all, the whole installation was so graphics orien- > ted, I was unable to get to text mode - maybe Lilo would > be faster ??? LILO is only the boot process. It has nothing to do with installation at all. If you install from a floppy, IIRC, like debian, the RH boot disk is syslinux based not LILO. > Anyway, one big improvement I could see in Gnome over 7.1 > > In 7.1, when logged in as a user, to do anything requir- > ing su permission requires to either logout and login as > root, or open a virtual console and log in as root- both > being equally frustrating. This is very surprising. This defeats the very purpose of su. Does this happen with other WMs or from console ? > > 7.2 has thoughtfully provided a dialog box asking for > the root password at the appropriate places. In 7.1 once > you login as a user and then su'd as root you cannot run > Linuxconf under Gnome, you must login directly as root. > Don't know if this is a step forward or backwards ... why log in as root for a mere install ? And Linuxconf ? Well ! > > Who knows, it may help some budding programmer design > better and more user-freindly systems. I'll be back .... > After being on comps for the better part of the last two decades, I can only confirm that there is nothing as user friendly as a 80x25 b&w ... these fancy GUIs are not too good for aging presbiopic eyes, and mouse is no match for the good old qwerty for speed :-) Just my 2p Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : To randomly play mp3 songs from a directory LOST #243 mpg123 -z /path/to/mp3s/*.mp3 This will randomly play mp3 songs from the specified folder. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>################################ : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
