Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote: First, your subject probably should have read "Why do most people run MS OS instead of Linux or another OS". It is not a good idea to send out a subject as you did as some folks may take it the wrong way or may think you're trolling or wishing to start another MS v.s. Linux rough up. > ( note: this message may have occured earlier, while > I have not seen it on the list ) No. > I hope to be excused as it was very complicated to > figure out the Fedora jungle of where to ask og > suggest anything. > > Microsoft: > > When it crashes, you insert the software CD, and > somehow you will get > going again. > > Fedora&RedHat: > > When it crashes, you insert the software CD, but > instead of > the situation above, most of your work is lost ! My experiences over the past 20 years has been the precise opposite. > I suggest that the installation WILL have an OPTION > for installing the > X-server. It can be on the rescue disk, for instance. Are you talking about, or attempting to start a discussion about the general nature of recovery from a "crash" (define crash) or are you talking about what to do in specific cases? > If anyone has a good tip as how to reinstall X in > Fedora6, I sure would like to know and hopefully rescue my > disk. > But frankly, I don't understand why such an option > isn't there in the first place. The philosophy of MS seems to always been..."when something seems broken, reinstall" while the philosophy of *nix has been "when something seems broken, find the root cause and act accordingly". > BTW - it was the Add/Remove software packaged that > failed, it should only remove some graphical package, > but surprisingly removed the X-server as well. > ( did look like it rolled back the depencies.. ) Well, you haven't told anyone what you did *exactly* so I think the "failure" you experienced is hard to discuss.
