[ale] Origins of Linux, do we care?

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 14:39:52 -0400
Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:


> yup, I noticed that.. and this isn't for the faint of heart.. I
> googled setting up X, and saw things I haven't dealt with in years..

With good docs, Void will be recognized as the great distro it is.

> but now Mate is up & running, I didn't even have to reboot once I
> added the right links, apps.... it just went to the GUI login window
> for lightdm.. I am still missing my history for command line ( yet
> another google..), but mate & vlc are installed, and I guess I
> updated the system.. it didn't complain, but gave me no feedback when
> I did xbps-install -Suv. I might install it on my laptop & use that
> for a while. It might make my laptop last a while longer:)

If anyone is following behind Paul and me, note that on my computer, I
had a whale of a time getting X to run as a normal user, even though I'd
done the usual suid on /usr/bin/X*.

Then I noticed that the partition housing /usr (the root partition,
actually), was mounted nouid. I removed nouid and bang, X worked
perfectly.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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