Le 13/12/2009 15:02, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
Notice that installing a piece of software by root or admin is no different in windows or in linux.
not really true, for historical reasons. Linux, like Unix, is based *from the beginning* on the fact that applications are installed by root. period. no user is normally allowed to run apps (binaries) in they account. Of course, often, nowaday, root and the user are the same person, but unless you work routinely as root (what is largely advertised as unsecure), you have to make a choice when you go to root. This is done pretty often, but not at any moment. Windows behave very differently on this respect. If one look only superficially, windows users, like Linux, runs in they account, but Msoft lose a chance to make they system secure when issuing Windows 95. This Windows version was largely advertised as being only accessible for *registered* applications. That is only a programm *controlled* by Microsoft should be able to run on it. However when Windows 95 was launched it was not true and it's still not true. There was too any Applications that Microsoft didn't want to ban fron Windows to allow this. In this situation, most Windows programmers (not the microsoft ones, the large applications base ones) didn't take the burden of programming cleanly they apps and things didn't go better. It's nearly impossible to run a windows app without a large part of admin rights, let alone because many of the apps still write by default in "c:/programm files." subfolder. Microsoft could have made this better, but it noticed windows was still the number one of the OS, so why bother? the present solution of asking the user 10 times a day if he really want to do an admin task is the worst solution ever. At the first time the user says "no!". Notice nothing works. then say "yes!" each time, not even reading the message... I use side by side Linux and Windows machine, but with clean admin thinking and never got any viruses in more than ten years... but I know of many people that can't use they W computer, so heavily destroyed it is (including my own son :-() jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://news.opensuse.org/2009/04/13/people-of-opensuse-jean-daniel-dodin/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org