Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:46:48 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr> Cc: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <001401c17ab1$ae491630$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15365.11290.211107.464324@guru.mired.org> <006101c17854$c6aa2570$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <01112817112006.13219@prime.vsservices.com> <016301c17888$c1be3cc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011129115922.GA75539@hades.hell.gr> <02b101c1790e$e802df90$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011201182435.GC936@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos writes: > A properly designed multiuser system, should > not involve much more overhead than a simple > "login" step. A multiuser system does not let you implicitly share everything with everyone. One reason why many people have resisted NT in the past is simply that you must log in to the workstation or server. That was the only difference, but it put people off. > But this 'bypassing' is sometimes advertized as > a technological advance in the Windows world > too. I'm thinking of DirectX and Direct3D now. Yes, one of Microsoft's follies. It reminds me of Netscape advertising its "standards-compliant" e-mail servers, which simply means that they stapled together a truckload of public-domain code and called it a product. > You do have a point here... On a secure UNIX system, you should never run an X server on the console, IMO. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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