alsuren (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alsuren) wrote, |
Re: (Alex)
I've limited the scope of my investigation to how it operates as a multi-user OS, so I'm gonna ignore points 5 and 6 for now. Applications like the window manager and office programs shouldn't really be a reason for upgrading an entire system. Also, it should be noted that I have remote desktop into your system, so I can get the apps without installing the OS :D. My vision of the future is networked thin clients and multi-user application servers, so it's the multi-user aspects of the OS that will ensure that it continues into the future.
Regarding the folder being created, it was probably just the fscked up python MSI installer that pretended to make the folders without actually doing so.
Regarding running apps as root, do you understand what's actually happening: do all apps actually get run as root, or what? It is most confusing. I wonder if there's a way to check what's going on. I think my "killer feature request" reduces to "let me run/develop/install programs/do whatever I want for my own user without the risk of affecting anything that anyone else is doing as another user." There must be a way of setting it up, but I fear that it might involve installing some kind of virtual machine, which is a very complicated and wasteful way of solving a problem that can be *easily* solved by using unix file permissions.
I've limited the scope of my investigation to how it operates as a multi-user OS, so I'm gonna ignore points 5 and 6 for now. Applications like the window manager and office programs shouldn't really be a reason for upgrading an entire system. Also, it should be noted that I have remote desktop into your system, so I can get the apps without installing the OS :D. My vision of the future is networked thin clients and multi-user application servers, so it's the multi-user aspects of the OS that will ensure that it continues into the future.
Regarding the folder being created, it was probably just the fscked up python MSI installer that pretended to make the folders without actually doing so.
Regarding running apps as root, do you understand what's actually happening: do all apps actually get run as root, or what? It is most confusing. I wonder if there's a way to check what's going on. I think my "killer feature request" reduces to "let me run/develop/install programs/do whatever I want for my own user without the risk of affecting anything that anyone else is doing as another user." There must be a way of setting it up, but I fear that it might involve installing some kind of virtual machine, which is a very complicated and wasteful way of solving a problem that can be *easily* solved by using unix file permissions.
