My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Apr 13 07:02:06 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/04/zapping-server.html
>>> Excuse me Tom, this article is so bad I have to rip it apart.
>>>
>> Another quote:
>> "Those who want to use the computer but not have to know about it's
>> internals should not be able to accidentally trigger it."
>>
>> Does this imply that people can press CTRL+ALT+Backspace accidentally??
>>
>> I'm speechless.
> 
> Many people in thread here and other places like the freedesktop mailing
> list and in http://lwn.net/Articles/327141/ have claimed to accidentally
> tripped this key combo. 
They have learnd their lesson and won't do it again.

People will have to understand that "Linux is not Windoze" and that it's 
naive to expect all OSes to behave the same rsp to adopt the design 
flaws of other OSes.

It'll be the same people who will complain, when they find their X 
system misbehaving and they are able to cope with the situation in 
reasonable manners because Red Hat's xorg maintainers have broken 
"ctl-alt-bs".

Those people who now are complaining, are those who know how helpful 
"clt-alt-bs" is in certain situations.

> It is not that hard.
It's not that hard to press "ctl-alt-del", "ctl-alt-prsrcn", "ctl-S" and 
many other keyboard short cuts, either.





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