Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:03:32 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Horst von Brand wrote:

> "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.

Why? With modules, you can swap stuff around as much as you need.
You just need root privs to do it.

Jon

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