Hello, I'm quite a newbie to Linux and emerge mainly from a MS background. I love Linux and use it as my primary OS though.
I have a question with regards shutting down Linux. When I shutdown Linux I go into tty1 and press Ctrl-Alt-Del. Now this shuts everything down including X and it's applications, however what if I'm in the middle of say typing a document, I don't get a dialog box responding to a close event asking me if I want to save the document or not,etc. Does this mean that Linux applications are typically supposed to be designed so that they automatically save whatever was happening when they receive the TERM signal. However, the time between a TERM and KILL signal is low, therefore if there were applications that require a lotta time completing what they're doing, then they may be killed before they finish their task. Could someone explain the Shutdown process to me? Also I currently have Potato and I've been thinking of Upgrading to Woddy. How would I go about that? Could I just do a apt-get upgrade?? Would that upgrade me to Woody (Debian 2.4)....what is Sid? Thanks for all the help
