[CentOS] Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 00:47, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>Oh, in a Un*x world I would not move them out of the user's home
>>>>>>directory.  Just organize better by identity within home.
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>But why fight the native multiuser design with a workaround that
>>>>>you had to use elsewhere?  Just give every identity its own home.
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>This is another thing I am looking at.  But I would have to be logged
>>>>into all of them pretty much at once.
>>>>
>>>>Un*x has always supported this.  But gnome seems to be weak on this.
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>>>>
>>>You can use the same approach you'd use for an account on a
>>>different machine:
>>> ssh -Y user at locahost programname
>>>although you lose a bit of machine efficiency as a tradeoff
>>>for not having to deal with special cases.
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>>>
>>oh, sneaky.  I WILL have to try that....
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>I think I'd call it elegant simplicity instead of sneaky.  Long
>ago there was a lot of discussion of the concept of
>'orthgonality' in unix tools, with the idea being that
>things should work the same way regardless of context
>so that learning them once will serve you in many
>circumstances.  (For example if you understand vi, you'll note
>that there are only a couple of exceptions to the 'count, range,
>action' scheme of commands - where count and range are optional).
>That idea seems to have gotten lost in the GUI flavor-of-the-day
>world where everyone thinks their context-sensitive system is
>better than anything else and you should forget everything you
>knew last week and learn a million special cases instead.
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Preach it *LOUD*, brother :-) !!!!

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