>> So I'm reading an article, and it mentions how using the shutdown
>> command you can let all the people on your system know that you're going
>> to shutdown...but my question is: how many people really have multiple
>> users on their system doing stuff that they need to save, clean up,
>> whatever? I keep seeing the theory, but where's the practice?
> It's like that because Linux is modeled after Unix, the multi-user, CLI
> OS from days of yore. I think the interesting problem is that system
> messages such as that do not interact elegantly with the components that
> make up today's GUI desktops (that is not to say that they couldn't,
> only that they don't).
LINUX has not been converted to the desktop computer yet, in my opinion.
Most BIOS's will directly print it's screens to the first parallel
port it finds, but LINUX printing only works for the first week after
a fresh install for me, for unknown reasons, so I had to write my own bash
script files to get by. I can get LPing working for a week at a time,
but I can never get cups working. never Every improvement seems to
enhance the complexity.
We really need a simple text printing structure kind-a like M$DOS
has had from the beginning, first.
--
Ron
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