Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 16:17:34 -0400


"Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu> said:

[...]

> Speaking for myself, I'd much rather upgrade the kernel.
> XFree86 comes with a collection of libraries, and a library
> upgrade often breaks stuff. The kernel is easy to change.

Because it doesn't depend on the year's crop on video cards. Put that stuff
into the kernel, it will be _much_ worse than upgrading a library.

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