Is it me, or does it seem like when there are less than popular suggestions, 
there are often more nasty replies or flame-tinted repsonses from the 
developers, or am I just overly sensitive?
 I would also like to add some bait to this:
I dont care about the slocate thing myself, I rarely use it, but a renicing 
has a great effect on performance.Would like to have messages logged 
somewhere, as I sleep through updates, consequently, never knew it was 
beeping?:) Agree on the kernel thing, but it got remedied, for the most part.
The /etc/issue thing- we didn't have it for a long ass time, somebody made 
some neat gentoo artwork, and it became standard.Whoopee. A quick fix for 
that I had was to "echo ^[[2J^[[f > /etc/issue" from local.start and not only 
does it keep anything from being displayed, it makes sure the screen is 
blanked after logout.
 I like being Unix compatible, but not so to the point of we must include 
everything I might ever see on a Unix anywhere. Simply providing access to 
install the packages that I might expect to find on a Unix box is enough. 
Also noted somebody said "Debian provides..." yeesh, lets not take our distro 
cues from there please.
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Chuck Brewer
Registered Linux User #284015
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