W dniu 25.02.2021 o 10:06, Janina Sajka pisze: > Kirk, > > I've wondered about this myself, so I'm glad you raised the question. I > don't see a multi-user Linux system in my remaining days on this planet. Note the issues raised apply for systems used by single user, too. Like I have myself used accounts for friends using my laptop, I remember they had a need to do this, around 7 years ago. > > It's certainly possible I'm wrong about that. However, if there is a > multi-user system in my future, I would expect it to be a graphical > desktop system. Not in my wildest do I see a multi-user console system. > > Meanwhile, the loss of the ability to play audio on the way to the login > prompt is a nuisance, imo. I have two active Arch systems right now, one > about 8 year old hardware, the other less than a year old. Both behave > differently, yet the OS is the same, kept updated, with pretty much the > same software installed. I work around this nuisance because login just > doesn't play a large role in my life. With a new kernel loaded after > system upgrade, I do indeed reboot and login. But, I then execute a > script that uses openvt to launch my 22 additional consoles. The 24th > console I login on as root directly, not via sudo -u. > > The biggest nuisance for me with the 2020 machine is the lack of support > for beep on backspace. I'm mightily offended by that! <smile> What? I mean it should work unless there is no longer pc speaker emulation wired to sound card like I have. You'd just enable that and pcspkr driver. Or what do you mean? > > hth > > Janina > > Kirk Reiser writes: >> Hey folks: Whenever folks start to talk about permissions and using >> things as individual users or system wide the notion of keeping them >> valid for multi-users system are paramount. I wonder how many of you >> actually user linux mechines as a multi-user box? >> >> Back when I kept various Unix like machines for students and the >> public in the eighties and nineties they were pretty well all used as >> multi-user systems. Since linux became readily available over the >> years I don't think I've ever seen one actually used as a multi-user >> machine. I'm trying to figure out whether it is really important to >> keep the availability present or if we might be crippling the >> community by insisting on it? >> >> The ongoing argument about whether pulse audio running in system mode >> or individual mode is a perfect example of what I'm wondering >> about. I'm sure there many other examples that could be dragged >> up. Your opinions would be interesting to hear. >> >> Kirk >> >> >
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