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On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 04:18:58PM -0400, Joseph Booker wrote |
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> From my own experience, it is useful to run "ifconfig" or "mount" |
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> as a regular user, same as the gimp or firefox commands. Given that |
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> all the commands you listed are in /usr/bin or /bin, I think I'm |
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> not the only one. The difference between "system software" and |
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> "regular applications" isn't clear-cut. |
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Let me rephrase that... instead of calling it "system software", let's |
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call it "software that the system needs for its own purposes". Whether |
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end users run them later is beside the point. Systems will boot, mount |
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disks, and set TCP/IP connections fine without GIMP or Firefox. Not so |
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much without mount and ifconfig/ifcfg. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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