It was thus said that the Great Richard Erlacher once stated:
>
> > 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.
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.
> 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)
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