On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:43:56PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > Linux comes from Unix, which was designed for mainframes. > windows comes from dos, which was designed for personal desktops. Well technically Unix was designed for mid-sized computers... > I *never* get told I dont have 'permission' to access a floppy. which is > what a dos/win user would expect. The Unix people run networks, and dont > mess with floppies, so they dont notice the problem. Unless you tell it > otherwise, it will default to the dos file system so you can take the > floppy to a dos/win machine. Which is prolly why you want to use it > anyway. With corel/debian, I dont havta 'mount' a floppy. Click on the > gui file manager, and theres a "+" to click on for the floppy or cdrom; > rw floppy access is the *default* just as a single user of dos/win would > expect. I dunno why so many distros just dont get this either. You get the same thing in gnome, there's a little applet that you can add to click on and get cdrom/floppy inserted. > Yes, Linux is terrific for networks. And if you are a sysad, by all > means rely on it. If however, you are trying to run a single user > desktop, then the whole business of having to logon and enter your > password are a pain in the rectal orifice. With Corel, all I havta do is > hit [CR] to accept the blank pw and bring me to my desktop. I'd prefer > that it went automatically to my desktop like dos does, but it aint too > bad. If I want root, I dont bother to login as root, but use su in a > terminal. But lotsa distros just do not get it. Perhaps, as home > networks become more common, this will be more acceptable, but even > then, most of us in the home have "our" computer, and they have theirs, > and we still dont need the logon process. I do the same thing for GDM and login for my Debian system at home. Have to modify the files: /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/login to allow login without a password. GDM (the login program for gnome) can even auto-log you into your account, but I don't want that since other people also use my computer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> http://www.crasseux.com
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