Re: Reboot/Restart Jargon

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 23:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> It seems that we are using reboot/restart inconsistently in the 
> interface. GDM has a restart button with provides a message on 
> "reboot"ing the system. Pirut, GNOME and KDE menus mention restart and 
> reboot in a seemingly random fashion. Also without using KDM, KDE 
> wouldnt provide a restart and shutdown option.

Surely reboot is the technical term, and restart is the action?

I would have thought we should be using "restart" throughout the distro.

Richard.