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Article #1116Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Caley
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <948379057.5281.0.nnrp-10.c2debccb@news.demon.co.uk>, James Robson (jr) writes: jr> As to O/S fragility could UNIX's good reputation and Windows' bad jr> be down to the amount of tinkering that users do? I wouldn't think so. Many windows users just boot and go into Office/Tomb Raider. Probably several times per session:-). jr> Now your average Windows user has been sat in front of a machine jr> which, unless it has profiles, etc set up, is wide open to people jr> playing - and Sod's Law says that if they can play with it they jr> will. There is no reason for them not to be allowed to. It just shouldn't be easy for them to change things they really don't want to change (whether they know the don't or not:-)). jr> As for Linux, AIUI, your average Linux users is more switched on than your jr> average Windows user. But they all seem to run as root half the time. I think it's a great testimony to resiliance that Linux systems seem to survive this kind of attitude:-). -- Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/20
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