On wo, 2007-02-14 at 07:54 +0100, Philippe De Ryck wrote: > According to me, a normal user can install as much on windows (this > has apparently changed in vista) as on linux. As long as you don't > need to put any files in system directories, there shouldn't be a > problem. It only appears to be different because everyone runs as > "admin" on a windows-pc (because otherwise half the program's just > don't work, ...).
The "programs don't run without admin rights" issue is slowly going away. > Precompiled packages on linux are a bit difficult (system > directories), There are 'klik' and similar systems. And most programs allow overriding the system settings with ~/.blah files or directories anyway. > but if you compile the software yourself, you can specify the > installation directory at configuration time (your homedir for > instance). And for an easy way to compile everything, there is NetBSD's portable 'pkgsrc' infrastructure (and maybe Gentoo's 'portage' can be used in your home directory too?). -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:[email protected] You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
