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- From: peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.145948.1012@global.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:59:48 GMT
- References: <BxEB33.372@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Nov12.005025.1251@global.hacktic.nl> <BxntrG.ECD@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <Bxw4JJ.HzC@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1405@ozz.oasis.icl.co.uk>
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- ppg@oasis.icl.co.uk (Philippe Goujard) writes:
-
- >As long as your are installing a unix with multi-user capacities you have
- >to know at least a little bit more than when installing single user
- >operating systems.
-
- Well, it could have multi-user capabilities disabled by default, but not
- removed. As long as you provide root capabilities to the shell the user is
- using, then it looks to him like MS-DOS, AmigaDOS, OS/2, probably like NT,
- where you can do whatever you want on the command line, even the equivalent of
- rm -rf / (MS-DOS&OS/2: 'xdel /a/s \' I think?).
-
- >Of course if you are speaking of a unix for a single user this is a
- >completly different ball game. But so far I've never seen such a beasty.
- >Maybe SVR4.2 will be.
-
- I think Univell's SVR4.2 will be. Including a reasonable price.
-
- >For example Novell is not really difficult to install but it is not exactly
- >what joe user does every morning to have fun.
-
- Anyone, not just Joe... <grin>
-
- >Yes but what is complex? Something complex for you might not be for me or
- >the other way around.
-
- No on-line help when important questions are asked during installation is,
- IMHO, a flaw.
-
- >Of course some of you might say that a single unix already exists and it is
- >called os/2...
-
- OS/2 is not UNIX. I liked OS/2 but it lacks the easy to use programming
- environment of UNIX.
-
- >PS : I installed windows 3.1 recently and I LIKED the installation
- >procedure, specially those messages saying "This is a good time for filling
- >you registration..."
-
- I liked it too.
-
- >However, programs under windows tend to be really large now (how many
- >floppies for Corel draw?) and I wish you could get a tape distribution.
-
- Well, that's because things like 'tar xf' don't exist under MS-DOS.
-
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