apt-get/Synaptic

[Advent Systems]

Yes.  When you run updates you want as little going on "system wise" as 
possible (synaptic, etc.),  so rather then run apt-get from a  terminal 
window while X and gnome are running (which are "big" system wise) would 
it not make more sense to shut them down and have as little running as 
possible when you do updates, or does it really not matter what is 
running when preforming updates?

Bob Randal

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

> Advent Systems wrote:
>
>> Jesse,
>>    Not having the synaptic gui running makes sense during updates but 
>> do you also shut down X (go to run level 3) which seems to me has way 
>> more stuff  "going on" then synaptic?
>>
> I don't think I understand your question. You mean physically log out 
> and go to run level 3 just to run updates? -Jesse
>