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Linux update becomes terminal pain
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-08-24

Many users of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution found themselves on Tuesday thrown back to mid-1990s, when a botched update to the graphical X Window subsystem brought them face-to-face with the command-line terminal.

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Linux update becomes terminal pain 2006-08-25
Anonymous
"the X Window software used by almost all Linux systems..." Can you source this? I'd think it would be closer to half or less of Linux systems use X Windows. Or did you mean that almost all Linux DISTRUBUTIONS include X Windows? That a big difference....

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