On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 04:18:58PM -0400, Joseph Booker wrote > > From my own experience, it is useful to run "ifconfig" or "mount" > as a regular user, same as the gimp or firefox commands. Given that > all the commands you listed are in /usr/bin or /bin, I think I'm > not the only one. The difference between "system software" and > "regular applications" isn't clear-cut.
Let me rephrase that... instead of calling it "system software", let's call it "software that the system needs for its own purposes". Whether end users run them later is beside the point. Systems will boot, mount disks, and set TCP/IP connections fine without GIMP or Firefox. Not so much without mount and ifconfig/ifcfg. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
