Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

[Frank Peters]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 03:31:30 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:

>
> While I strongly disagree with your position, I equally strongly respect
> you for knowing what you want and sticking to it ...
>
> As to the disagreement, I guess I'm a single-human-user desktop system
> user too.  But I recognize the benefits of running various daemons as
> their own (non-human) user ...
>
> So quite in contrast to you, I don't normally even escalate to superuser
> even when I'm doing admin tasks ...
>

It's amazing how people become nearly apoplectic whenever they encounter
a case of a user running entirely as root.

For me it's no big deal.  I've been doing it happily, and without problem,
since since 1997 (when I first discovered Linux).  It also un-complicates
things greatly.

For me there is only one user, and that's the guy who owns and operates
the machine (root). What could be simpler?

But I've learned not to discuss such behavior with others.  They will
always react in alarmist ways.

I won't even mention that, until recently, I used to boot my machine
directly into a bash shell, skipping all that SysV (or other) initialization
nonsense.  Fortunately, the Linux kernel allows one to do just that.
It always has and hopefully always will.  Booting into bash is very
simple.  All that is required is to define some environmental variables
in the bashrc and one is good to go.  All other configuration can
be done as needed (or if needed).  This is Linux at its very best, IMO.

But, as I already indicated, these things cannot be freely discussed.
People will react strongly and begin to adduce all sorts of reasons
why such behavior is dangerous.  So, for me, it is always a case of don't
talk and don't listen.

Frank Peters