Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops. All other machines allowed cron.
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RE[3]: Linux on the consumer desktop
by soulmaker on Wed 18th Apr 2007 05:56
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RE[4]: Linux on the consumer desktop
by renox on Wed 18th Apr 2007 08:18
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GoboLinux and MacOS X both are hack for the filesystem problem: there is not one filesystem, but two!
The (fugly) classic one and the new one.
The not hackish solution would be to change all the Linux/Unix software to use (only) the new FS hierarchy, but that would be like changing the side of the road English people are using: a synchronisation nightmare!
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*linux beginner here* What pisses me the most is when I install an application and the package manager for some reason "forgets" to create icons and I have to go hunting for the executable.
For quite some time I let it go - searching for another app that did the same - then I found out about /usr/bin, but unfortunately there are hundreds of files there and the newly installed app, sometimes doesn't heave a logical and easy to find name.
An applications/ folder would be nice in *nix, along with a system/ folder for all the crap that no regular user understands - and I don't mean a hack like Gobo Linux, but it seems that no one has the balls to do it.
Edited 2007-04-18 05:48