Re: Desktop apps interoperability

From: Casey Schaufler <casey_at_schaufler-ca.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:51:09 -0800 (PST)

• Tom <tom@lemuria.org> wrote:
  > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 12:27:31AM -0500, Ivan
  > Gyurdiev wrote:
  > > Part of the problem seems to be the way Linux apps
  > treat /home, as the
  > > place for everything.
  >
  > It doesn't. It treats $HOME as the only place that
  > the user has
  > permission to store his stuff. On a well-configured
  > system, that
  > assumption is correct.
  

Windows and MacOS are designed as single user systems. Unix and Linux are designed as multiuser systems. Configuring a Windows system for multiple concurrent users is quite painful. Configuring unix for a single user seems unnecessarily difficult.

Interestly, when we did the B1/LSPP versions of unix the home directory model helped reduce the problem of user sensitivity restrictions by isolating the part of the directory hierarchy that had to be customized for the user.

Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com                 

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Received on Mon 28 Mar 2005 - 11:52:17 EST