Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?

[Steve Holmes]

You say that pressing control alt f1 drops you to a bash prompt.  What
about logging in? Do you have to login through this X environment first?
Could you have a different console come up with a different run level to
give you a command style login and shell?  From what I recall about
initab, you could have a different run level for each console (at least
under slackware).  I think the init/inittab stuff is generic - non
specific to distributions, right?

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Lol! That is funny. Actually, Red Hat 7.2 by default loads the gui, and when
> you log in you are dropped on a Gnome 1.4 desktop which is nice. Since my
> family likes the gui on start up I leave it that way.
> However, a alt+control+f1 sets me right, and gets me into a bash prompt to
> get some work done.
> So it is no big deal if Linux os's such as Mandrake 8.1 or Red Hat 7.2 it is
> set to runlevel 5. One key stroke and you are in bash.
> I think you are right though. Linux is at a critical point. Big companies
> like IBM are taking Linux serious, and many of home users are peed off at
> they way MS puts in their security for XP.
> Now is the time to start proving the os for what it can do. However,
> Mandrake and Red Hat are good distributions for the average home user. After
> most of them can't even reinstall MS Windows which is easy. How could they
> even think about Slackware which requires a little knolege of system files
> etc.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Myrow <myrow at eskimo.com>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 3:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Will Redhat Become a Division of AOL Time-Warner?
>
>
> > I can hear the advertising now.  "Redhat, so easy, no wonder it's number
> > 1!"  They'll be showing a grandmother on TV saying "my grandson sends me
> > email every day and I can actually reply with AOL for Redhat."
> >
> > In all seriousness, I don't think they could take out the command line.
> > After all, that's how Linux works.  They could make it start up in X, and
> > people wouldn't use the command line, but it's still in there.  Even
> > Windows XP has a command line if I understand it correctly.  I just think
> > it's funny that AOL is interested in Linux.
> >
> > What this shows is what I've believed for a long time.  Linux is at a
> > critical point in its history.  It's powerful enough to run serious
> > servers, but it's starting to grab the attention of the public because
> > they are finally starting to get tired of Windows crashing and excepting
> > that this is not normal behavior for a computer.  So, they are looking to
> > Linux because it has a reputation for stability, but they see that it
> > isn't Windows at all.  They want Windows without the bugs, and the Linux
> > users want something other than Windows.  So, we have word processors
> > under the GUI, ICQ cloans and such under the GUI, and development tools
> > running at the command line.  Redhat is clearly trying to attract home
> > users with its Plug 'N Play type install while Slackware is staying with a
> > "do it yourself" approach and other distributions seem to be somewhere in
> > the middle.  Linux is going to go one way or the other.  It's really up to
> > the users to decide which way it goes.
> >
> >
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