Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

[rgm at htt-consult.com (Robert Moskowitz)]

At 06:11 PM 12/27/2005, Les Mikesell wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:03, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> > >
> > >In UNIX, you want to _avoid_ doing that.  Why?  Because in
> > >the UNIX world -- _everyone_ knows that user settings go in
> > >the user's home directory.
> >
> > Oh, in a Un*x world I would not move them out of the user's home
> > directory.  Just organize better by identity within home.
>
>But why fight the native multiuser design with a workaround that
>you had to use elsewhere?  Just give every identity its own home.

This is another thing I am looking at.  But I would have to be logged 
into all of them pretty much at once.

Un*x has always supported this.  But gnome seems to be weak on this.

I would have to learn again how to do a make!