Hello WAYNE!

03 May 10 13:30, you wrote to me:

 RC>> What would have ever made you think the commandlines of one
 RC>> distribution is different from another, especially with the most
 RC>> popular shell in use, ie BASH?

 WC> Uh because some of the very important ones ARE!

 WC> Try rm filename on knoppix, it'll ask "are you sure you want to delete
 WC> this file? y/n"

 WC> IOW's rm -i in Slackware.

and you do not consider for a single minute that the distro maintainers for
each Linux flavor, used different defaults in the .bashrc files,
bash.bashrc files or in profile?????????

You are certainly aware of the alias function, arent you?

 WC> Not knowing this one little alias for rm in Knoppix wiped out my OS
 WC> one time transitioning form one to another.

Yup you do..

The ignorance was your own..

 WC> Unlike you I do NOT offer advice not knowing what I'm talking about
 WC> such as your catostrophic advice as to removing the video card and
 WC> rebooting linux Slackware before you admiitted to Maurice you were
 WC> actually trying it for the first time.

I was not trying to duplicate your issue, quit rewriting history.

I installed slack to prove to you it was not as hard as you made it out to
be, and to Maurice in hopes he would stop coddling you.

My Linux experience is Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse (3 incarnations) (all not
DEBIAN variants..) Then I played with Knoppix, Xandros, Gentoo and then
Ubuntu (DEBIAN variants).. Then Slackware..

 WC> Then you berated me for not being able to follow the advice, "remove
 WC> video card" "reboot" as to complex for me to understand.

To see you write, sometimes that is true.

 RC>> Troubleshooting 101:
 RC>> * What happened or what were you doing when the problem started?
 RC>> * Hardware added or removed?
 RC>> * Software added or removed?
 RC>> * Setting added, removed or altered?

 WC> Well let's just agree I will not be taking any of your advice in
 WC> future. Someoine went to bat for you private email that you were well
 WC> intentioned but underinformed.

Trouble shooting 101 Wayne, you failed.

 WC> I don't know which side of that equation to fall on.

 WC> Demonstrably you enjoy kicking a man when he's down.
 WC> Stroked as I was formerly.

Exactly how does one kick in a message?

 RC>> I installed Slack on a spare box just to see why you were talking
 RC>> it up as if it is the hardest thing to do, which it isnt.

 WC>> IOW's you had no idea what you were talking about.

Troubleshooting 101 Wayne, you failed..

Then again, I am talking to someone that thinks Windows malware can execute on linux.

 RC>> Only thing you need to know is their ISO's come with a very
 RC>> workable linux setup, similiar to how knoppix did things..

 WC> Knoppix looked too much like WinBlows and basically IMO sucked unless
 WC> you're not serious about your Linux.

There is no halfway with Linux Wayne, you either are running it, or your not..

You are in no position, neither is Maurice, to issue litmus tests on what
Linux puritanism is..

If you are worrying about what it *looks* like, then you are spending way
too much time inside X..

On many occasions, I turned X off and did all I wanted from the CLI..

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