BlueBus wrote:
> Like the registry one path. to things and that.
What a horrible thought :P A binary registry is the last thing GNU/Linux
needs and I have heard several quite significant people quite rightly
say "over my dead body".
> I had just typed my e-mail address and UID and PWD into lots of
> different things so wanted that registry.
There are various efforts to centralise user data storage however none
of these are a binary only horrible yucky thing that shouold be torn
apart and its authors shot...unlike the registry in windows.
Any binary only system which requires a periodic complete re-install to
fix unrepairable damages is fundamentally flawed in design.
Re-installation is not a fix for anything - neither is rebooting.
Having said this, IMO there is not too much wrong with a "registry"
which is text based and then gets turned in to a binary version when
changes are made (like mail alias files, etc.) however one has to ask -
what's the point? Personally I could see a use for a directory structure
within /etc which stored certain information within subdirectories...but
then we already have NIS and friends.
> I find that I don't want the windows thing now.
I have been Free since 1995.
I'm not weird honest, I just hate windows more than most things and I'm
sorry if this comes through so strongly...
--jcm
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