Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Fri, 2 May 2025 15:03:01 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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For someone who was new, I didn't even know what these mysterious files
were!  They just were yellow circles with faces, like a emojie with
croses for eyes and I think a tongue hanging out, as if dead.  Or a
bomb.  They just appeared on the filesystem and could be large.

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I think it might have been SUSE but if you ran as root the background
changed to a red field with big black smoking bombs like the ones seen in
cartoons.

Reminds me of the "cherry bomb" exceptions on the Atari ST.

I think Ubuntu was the first distro I ran into where root sort of
disappeared. 

$ sudo su

    :-)

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