RE: [SLUG] Multiple Users

From: Robert Eanes (rheanes3@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 09:42:06 EDT


--- Sick Twist <thesicktwist@hotmail.com> wrote:

> >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).
>
>
>

To add to that: the motto for Unix work alikes for the
longest time has been "The Network is the comptuer".
If you are looking at the desktop at being the
computer then this kind of functionality will not make
sense. The "real world practice" in today's terms
would be a network setup to proved "linux terminal
services" over the internet or across a Lan, where
there are a number of people that have connections to
the "server".

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