... then it is good enough for me. Competition sorts everything else out. Take the mobile phone as an example: first you could dial numbers and it was good enough, then you could write text messages, and now I'm posting on Slashdot from my Nokia (which has a full QWERTY keyboard, thankyouverymuch).
...is to lock it up by default and then the users will be FORCED to learn to make stuff work. And I don't mean those pesky dialogs "Allow application to run?" but rather default low-permission accounts (which implies making it hard to create an administrator account -- which exists already), minimum services out-of-the-box and a checklist of stuff needed to be turned on for apps to function. It's not too hard to enable and start the printer spooler when installing a printer, is it? Or enabling the DHCP client service when needed?
IMHO, the whole idea of a centralized registry to keep all configuration for every installed application AND the OS is flawed.
Indeed, some consolidation is needed - makes it easier for people to identify Linux through 1 distro rather than 10.
Incorporating proprietary software is not as scary as it sounds - noone forces users to buy the stuff and as we know, every Linux app has 5 alternatives. I think this would be some motivation for proprietary software writers to port to Linux. This makes the "but my app does not run on Linux" excuse go away (I've heard that a lot).
I work in a place like that, located in Varna, Bulgaria. It's a chain of 9 cafes, maybe the largest in the country. The business is quite successful, lots of people come and go. Customers can use colour laser printers, scanners, web cameras as well as play games or just suft the web.
Internet penetration is not too big here, so I guess this helps running such a thing. So does word of mouth, advertising, hosting game tournaments (this year we had ESWC and WCG qualifications) and more advertising.
You can check out the site here (it's mostly in Bulgarian, we have an English section though). The name is a ripoff too.
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... then it is good enough for me. Competition sorts everything else out. Take the mobile phone as an example: first you could dial numbers and it was good enough, then you could write text messages, and now I'm posting on Slashdot from my Nokia (which has a full QWERTY keyboard, thankyouverymuch).
It wouldn't do much.
From the page posted above by Otto:
It won't be 100% reliable, because:
* Keys like Alt aren't mapped, so you can't type slashes.
Thankfully we have the noexec mounting option available.
That's no good. Scripts can be run by invoking the interpreter first, like so:
/usr/bin/perl /home/user/proggie
and binaries by starting them like so:
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 /home/user/proggie
"It seems to me that the USSR collapsed not too long after the last generation to actually believe in it died."
That may come as a shock, but there are still people who believe in it. The USSR just wasn't economically viable.
Even the computer name is HONEYPOT, check out the log. Too bad he probably doesn't know what this term means and found an extreme way to find out :)
...is to lock it up by default and then the users will be FORCED to learn to make stuff work.
And I don't mean those pesky dialogs "Allow application to run?" but rather default low-permission accounts (which implies making it hard to create an administrator account -- which exists already), minimum services out-of-the-box and a checklist of stuff needed to be turned on for apps to function. It's not too hard to enable and start the printer spooler when installing a printer, is it? Or enabling the DHCP client service when needed?
IMHO, the whole idea of a centralized registry to keep all configuration for every installed application AND the OS is flawed.
Indeed, some consolidation is needed - makes it easier for people to identify Linux through 1 distro rather than 10.
Incorporating proprietary software is not as scary as it sounds - noone forces users to buy the stuff and as we know, every Linux app has 5 alternatives.
I think this would be some motivation for proprietary software writers to port to Linux. This makes the "but my app does not run on Linux" excuse go away (I've heard that a lot).
I work in a place like that, located in Varna, Bulgaria. It's a chain of 9 cafes, maybe the largest in the country. The business is quite successful, lots of people come and go. Customers can use colour laser printers, scanners, web cameras as well as play games or just suft the web. Internet penetration is not too big here, so I guess this helps running such a thing. So does word of mouth, advertising, hosting game tournaments (this year we had ESWC and WCG qualifications) and more advertising. You can check out the site here (it's mostly in Bulgarian, we have an English section though). The name is a ripoff too.