Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 21:51:55 UTC 2008
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>>>>> They may also require /usr/bin/sendmail, e.g.:
>>>> I think for the purposes of the discussion... anything which provides
>>>> that file is something Behdad is going to rage madly against "needing"
>>>> in modern personal desktop experience default install target.
>>> Rightly so, I think. For the 'modern personal desktop' (hope I used
>>> the correct quotes there :-), the critical system messages deserve to
>>> be delivered to the active (or soon to be) desktop, rather than a
>>> passive log file.
>> What does that mean? Has Linux stopped being a multiuser system?
>
> You're sounding like a troll now. The phrase "modern personal desktop" was
> quite twice in the two-paragraph you replied to.
I have no idea what "modern personal desktop" means to you. For me, it
mostly means something that can run the NX client to connect to my
long-running desktop sessions on a few other machines.
> Just install the server spin and be happy. What's wrong with that?
I want desktop applications. I just don't want to be limited to one
user at a time running them, or forced to be at any particular location
relative to where they run, or to have to stay in one place after
starting a session.
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Les Mikesell
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