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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Which flavour? Post 3773 by clanger on Wednesday 11th of July 2001 05:39:27 AM
Old 07-11-2001
Question Which flavour?

Hi folks,

First post so be gentle with me Smilie I've decided it's about time I got down and dirty with Unix, so have jumped in at the deep end and am downloading Redhat as an option to Win2000 on my Intel machine. Should be fun (!), but if I remember right there's options of which type of Linux..Gnome, KDE (?) etc.

The question is, what do people recommend for a complete beginner with Unix who is very familiar with general PC/computer technology? And do people think I'm doing the right thing starting with Redhat as opposed to other flavours/
is Linux a bad starting point full stop?

Cheers,

Natalie
 

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CTRLALTDEL(8)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						     CTRLALTDEL(8)

NAME
ctrlaltdel - set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination SYNOPSIS
ctrlaltdel hard|soft DESCRIPTION
Based on examination of the linux/kernel/sys.c code, it is clear that there are two supported functions that the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence can perform: a hard reset, which immediately reboots the computer without calling sync(2) and without any other preparation; and a soft reset, which sends the SIGINT (interrupt) signal to the init process (this is always the process with PID 1). If this option is used, the init(8) program must support this feature. Since there are now several init(8) programs in the Linux community, please consult the documentation for the version that you are currently using. ctrlaltdel is usually used in the /etc/rc.local file. FILES
/etc/rc.local SEE ALSO
simpleinit(8), init(8) AUTHOR
Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk) AVAILABILITY
The ctrlaltdel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. Linux 1.2 25 October 1993 CTRLALTDEL(8)
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