Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Feb 2006 17:10 UTC
One of the biggest reasons for many people to switch to a UNIX desktop, away from Windows, is security. It is fairly common knowledge that UNIX-like systems are more secure than Windows. Whether this is true or not will not be up for debate in this short editorial; I will simply assume UNIX-like systems are more secure, for the sake of argument. However, how much is that increased security really worth for an average home user, when you break it down? According to me, fairly little. Here's why.
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2005-07-07
It is as simple as that, considering I designed the system for real world use.
And that would be?
All of my so called vague points, or better your vague avoiding
One software sometimes needs to start another for interoperation to be possible. Or software can be scripted.
Runing software from file manager stoped being enough in '95. For (my linux gedit session) example I run gedit. Gedit has nice plugin "commands". I can script any command I want there. For example, starting any programed alteration on opened file (let's say I wan't to prepend text if not yet present from one file, let's call it license and create help for this file, where parser is another external tool, oh, and yes upload it to cvs, call my internal coding server and force recompiling on remote location with enforeced restart ant test suite run) and reload, with a single mouse click or shortcut.
Solve this simple problem with your file manager logic. And with simple, I realy mean simple, it only uses one opened file, one external license file, modifies one external help, uploads to one remote location and notifies one remote service. Other problems are way more complex.