[Ubuntu-be] [Fwd: nu is het officieel: linux, dat is voor communisten!]

[Jan Claeys]

On wo, 2007-02-14 at 11:09 +0100, Pieter Baele wrote:
> Op 14-feb-07, om 10:16 heeft Jan Claeys het volgende geschreven:
> > The "programs don't run without admin rights" issue is slowly going
> > away.
> 
> For over 90% of the program installations in vista you need approval.
> The short period I ran and tested the systems, I've seen 'OK' buttons  
> everywhere.

We wrote about "running", not about "installing system-wide".

> >> Precompiled packages on linux are a bit difficult (system
> >> directories),
> >
> > There are 'klik' and similar systems.  And most programs allow
> > overriding the system settings with ~/.blah files or directories  
> > anyway.
> >
> >>  but if you compile the software yourself, you can specify the
> >> installation directory at configuration time (your homedir for
> >> instance).
> >
> > And for an easy way to compile everything, there is NetBSD's portable
> > 'pkgsrc' infrastructure (and maybe Gentoo's 'portage' can be used in
> > your home directory too?).
> >
> Indeed. But you can't mess up your base system as an ordinary user.
> Isn't that the best of two worlds?

Right, but that's how it works on a decently installed Windows system
too (at least for the Professional versions, and probably in all Vista
versions?).


-- 
Jan Claeys