>From: Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] Multiple Users
>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:58:27 -0400
>
>Hello all...
>
>So I'm reading an article, and it mentions how using the shutdown
>command you can let all the people on your system know that you're going
>to shutdown...but my question is: how many people really have multiple
>users on their system doing stuff that they need to save, clean up,
>whatever? I keep seeing the theory, but where's the practice?
>
>--
>Russell Hires <rhires@earthlink.net>
It's like that because Linux is modeled after Unix, the multi-user, CLI OS
from days of yore. I think the interesting problem is that system messages
such as that do not interact elegantly with the components that make up
today's GUI desktops (that is not to say that they couldn't, only that they
don't).
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