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[Day Brown <daybrown AT hypertech.net>]

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
 
> > Or put another way, why isnt there an upfront offer to install
> > Linux that way?
> 
> You are talking rubbish.  Some versions of Linux do in fact
> install a desktop designed for a single user.  BasicLinux,
> which is supposedly the subject of this discussion group,
> does not even provide the tools needed to administer users
> (they are an optional add-on).
I have the install cds from BSD, corel, caldera, debian, gentoos,
mandrake, redhat, slackware, suse, & storm.
Not *one* offered to let me set it up to go automatically to my desktop
just like dos does. Every single one required me to at least click on a
default user, and most of them required me to type in my username and
enter a password, usually at least 6 letters. BL is the one distro I
have seen that since it is launched by 'boot.bat', could be installed in
the autoexec.bat, and go directly to the bash prompt. I spoze it might
also go on to xwindows. without requiring me to enter either my username
or my password.

I spoze it is theoretically possible to go right to the user desktop
with any of them, BL is the only one I have seen that *defaults* to the
single user desktop in the standard setup. 
 
> Some people (like Nguyen) wish to use BasicLinux as a multi-user
> system, and I am happy for them to do so.  Their questions are
> very welcome in this discussion group.  On the other hand,
> your continual complaints about the supposed shortcomings of
> Linux are not welcome.  Please stop.
These 'shortcomings' are not inherent in the os nearly so much as that
the distros have seen their market in the commercial setting, and try to
make it easy for a sysad to setup several users on one or more
terminals. That's a problem with the distro, which, of all those I've
yet seen, is not evident in BL. And because, as mentioned by another
post, these distros are setup for networks, there is an overhead which
does not burden dos, nor BL- because, as you say, if you want this
stuff, you havta add it, not look for ways to get it out of the way.
Does a BL user ever get told he dont have 'permission'?