Markus Huber wrote: > There is nothing wrong with that and a big advantage at a school. > Windows boxes usually rot away within minutes, because everybody can > install anything wherever they want, they do not need to be > root/administrator to do that. And that's wrong. Caution: there is nothing special about the root-only-writable /usr/* for compiling, installing and running stuff. I was surprised to see Opera running on the Fedora laptop my stepson uses a few months ago... he just downloaded the binaries, unpacked them in /home and ran them. Similarly he has compiled .tar.gz's in /home himself and run the executable in-place. You can mount /home noexec I guess, but assuming that a typical Linux box is much better in the "root must install" respect is wrong. -Andy
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