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Does Linux Have a 'Safe Mode'?

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Experience Linux support on the front lines. I recently upgraded a friend of mine to Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop for his five-year-old Acer laptop with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Windows 2000 after backing up his precious documents, pictures and browser favorites. I installed the latest stable version of Ubuntu, restored all of his settings, Internet connection and documents. He immediately fell in love with the GNOME interface, the speed at which the system booted and how snappy it responded to his barrage of clicking. He was in heaven.

I recently upgraded a friend of mine to Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop for his five-year-old Acer laptop with 512 MB of RAM. I removed Windows 2000 after backing up his precious documents, pictures and browser favorites. I installed the latest stable version of Ubuntu, restored all of his settings, Internet connection and documents. He immediately fell in love with the GNOME interface, the speed at which the system booted and how snappy it responded to his barrage of clicking. He was in heaven.

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Comments (2)

tuxchick ·
A computer keyboard is asked to do an awful lot with only 105 keys. It has to enter both data and commands, and the commands vary according to individual applications, system commands, and shell commands. It's a lot to ask of a relic of the typewriter age. And you still can't get asterisks and quotation marks to render reliably, or consistent copy-and-paste behavior. I've been experimenting with using the "windows" key as an extra meta-key and doing some custom keymappings because I like to stay on the keyboard as much as possible. Haven't decided yet if it's going to help because retraining the left pinky is an uphill job :)

ZaReason sells an excellent keyboard with a Tux key, and various vendors sell little Tux stickers to cover the Windows key.
gus3 ·
I would argue that it's no more complex than spoken language. The interpretation depends on the context. The difference between

$ echo "ls -lR /"

and

$ ls -lR /

is no greater than the difference between "He said he went to the fair" and "He went to the fair".

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