[FusionComm] 2 Quick suggestion

[Sven Mauhar]

well thats why we should just make the X server restart not reboot the
machine. the end user shouldn't care what where doing as long as it works.

On 7/13/07, Alyssa Hung <deciare at isisview.org> wrote:
>
> Sven Mauhar wrote:
> > how about a live cd with driver that are not installed by default but
> > are on the CD?
> > just have a big icon on the desktop or ask at start if the user agrees
> > to install the drivers and restart X.
> > would this be compatible with GPL or what ever license the affected
> > programs are under?
>
> That's almost what Ubuntu (Feitsty)'s live CD does, but with an
> important difference. Ubuntu's live CD doesn't ask you to restart X, it
> asks you to reboot. ;) The drivers you just installed are forgotten from
> memory along with your reboot, of course.
>
> It's possible to restart X instead of rebooting to make it work, but I
> agree that it wouldn't be obvious to the average Windows user (for whom
> "restarting the windowing system" and "rebooting" mean the same thing).
>
>
> ~Alyssa
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