A commentator on this entry asked what soundslike a good question: why don't I have Grub2 boot the older kernel that Iwant to use, instead of removing the newer one?

The problem is that it's not a robust solution. The first and largestissue is that what I really want to do is enforce a negative ('neverboot this specific kernel'), but the only tool Grub gives me is apositive one ('boot this specific kernel'). There are a

The other day I was reading A Tale of Two Standards ,where Jeremy Allison mentions in passing:

Interestingly enough the SUS doesn't cover such things as the graphical user interface (GUI's)elements, as the history of Unix as primarily a server operatingsystem meant that GUI's were never given the importance needed forUnix to become a desktop system.

I don't think that this is the real reason that there is no POSIX orequivalent standard for Unix graphical user interfaces. Because I am a