7 May
2000
7 May
'00
2:53 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
Basically it means that as a user, if I try to delete the entire
filesystem it won't work. I, as a user, don't have the priviledges to
delete any old file---if I own them, yes, I can do what I please. But
system wide files? Nope. Can't do. Need administrative privs to delete
any arbitrary file.
I'm of two minds on this---I can see having administrative accounts and I
can see not having them. It really depends upon how centralized you want
your system(s) set up.
Like Allison's comments about user space kept
away from OSes and this
limits the blowups if a typical user make an miss is spot on.
I've never experienced this before, but I'm having difficulty parsing
this
sentence. Nevertheless, I'd say the the UNIX and others of
that
ilk were designed for use by and for nerds, from the standpoint that
producing software is useful work. That's only true if you're a software
vendor. If you're in the business of selling tires, or of making them,
generating software is overhead that you'd like to avoid.
There have been embeded systems based upon UNIX. I know that Taco Bell
used to use SCO UNIX in each store to run the cash registers and manage the
money/inventory of the store. The SCO boxes at Taco Bell don't have
development systems on them---there is no need as embedded systems.
Maybe Windows isn't for you. I use it because
it's hard not to. I have
half a dozen LINUX versions none of which has been left installed for more
than a day or two, and they wouldn't meet my needs. Likewise, I've not
gotten a comfortable feeling with SCO, UnixWare, etc. for the '386 and up
types.
Different users, different needs. Personally I've been able to use Linux
to save what otherwise would have been thrown-away PCs (one is even running
my personal website).
-spc (One running on a diskless machine)