On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 10:32:19AM -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> At 06:47 11/03/2001 +1100, Orbit Communications wrote:
> >Do children then buy games and have engineers commissions to install them ?
>
> Children should not install programs on NT, IMO -- unless they have system
> engineer equivalent knowledge. There is a reason why NT has all these
> security settings and different user groups, for example. And there is a
> reason why consumer systems don't have something like this.

Well, if you have to share the PC with your children, I'm sure you'll need
at least different users and access control. Otherwise your brave 4 years
old boy will destroy all your work just playing with mouse and icons...

On my Linux box my son may only srew up his account and nothing else. If I
had no Linux, probably I'd need to buy at least NT...
So I don't agree that consumer systems do not need users, group etc,
at least there in Poland where we still have less than 1 PC/person ;-).
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