On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 19:42 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > What is significantly different between the situation > > a secretary in an office desktop writing texts/browsing the web etc. is > > in and those of your Grandmother/ your 10 year old son doing the same > > @home? > > > > None. In both situations you will need a sysadmin. > > I don't see either situations needing a sysadmin. My grandmother does > her work on her computer without requiring any sysadmin interaction for > the kind of routine tasks you refer to. C'mon, you are really being rediculous. > >>>> Majority of updates are backported patches to maintain ABI compatibility. > > Irrelevant from a desktop USER's POV. > > > > To them, what matters is "their application simply works". > > Correct but the technical difference and the impact on the differences > between the roles they provide still stand. One example of the impact of > ABI compatibility is with ISV applications. ISV apps != RHEL desktop. > In this instance, you can't > expect them to simply work in any distribution without an additional > explicit effort. 1. We talked about desktops and freedom, not about ISVs. 2. They could do so easily, if they wanted to. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
