On Friday 15 March 2013 22:38:55 john lewis wrote:
> I too had similar thoughts when I read the book, the author knows too
> much about Linux to have written that without knowing he was writing
> 'nonsense' but I guess he is aware that there will be many windows
> users reading it who will expect several reboots following installation
> of a techy package like an anonomizer.
I went on a Raspberry Pi workshop on Friday, located in the Computing
Department of Protsdmouth University. One university computing student
wandered in and joined in with me and my "partner". She reckoned to know
Linux.
The organiser of the workshop told us to apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and
then reboot, and I was wondering why on earth we needed to reboot.* The
student said: "You have to reboot after you update." Erm... not in
Linux/Debian. "Of course you have to reboot after an update!" Erm... No,
you don't - unless there is a new kernel. At that point (luckily) she gave
up on that and went on to the next problem.
Not bad for an average man or woman in the street, but worrying in a computing
student who said that she knew Linux!!
Lisi
*In case you are wondering, when I went up to the chap and asked, the answer
was "To check that everything is O.K."
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