Cron/Xwindows

[Brian Densmore]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins
> 
> > That sounds more like devolve into the old Windows/Mac single user
> > model. Just in case you haven't noticed even Windows is 
> realizing a true
> > multi user environment is better than a single user one 
> (See Windows XP).
> 
> They are not targeting multiple simultaneous users though - 
> that's still a 
> pretty obscure offshoot where Citrix is still the dominant 
> player.  That's 
> also distinctly a server environment, not a workstation 
> environment, something 
> that would be selected for at install time.
Oh you mean kinda like what they are doing with Linux down
in that town government in Florida! Sorry, you're wrong here.
Linux does and can function as a server environment.

> 
> > Sorry I don't think so. First a lot of Linux systems don't 
> even use the
> > desktop. 
> 
> Right.  As long as the Linux desktop remains an obscure, difficult, 
> inefficient system with defaults for configurations that 
> haven't run in 
> twenty years, we can expect that to continue.
So all those governments and business switching over to Linux on 
the desktop are what? A flash in the pan?

> 
> > Actually I know this one, It's fun to run a script that 
> changes a users
> > CDE (AIX UNIX) desktop background to various colors or spam 
> them with 50
> > XClocks on their desktop. But that is only on days that we techs get
> > really board :D
> 
> Which makes it clear that *NIX is NOT ready for the modern multi-user 
> environment, or there would be access rights control to 
> prevent such things.  
Oh so then Windows is a better choice? Where you can remotely 
take over a person's entire machine with RPC? And since you didn't
seem to absorb the whole statement, in it's entirety [redundancy added].
X can be configured to reject other people trying to open windows on
your desktop. So, the rights control *is* there. You just need to exercise
it. Which goes back to the original statement that Linux doesn't 
*by default* assume that there is only one desktop. You seem to want it
both ways.