[CentOS] Multiple program instances or multiple log ins?

Tue Dec 27 20:27:21 UTC 2005
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

At 03:10 PM 12/27/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
>Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>I'm confused here.  Why do you need more than 1 instance of
>Evolution running on a system?

Because Evolution (because of gnome) is very single user centric.

>As I've stated before on this list and others, Evolution is
>not designed as an Internet e-mail client, it is an
>enterprise collaboration client.  It does not compare well
>with Eudora, Thunderbird, etc...  If you long for the more
>"direct/straight-forward" features of Eudora, check out
>Thunderbird.  If you are looking for the 1:1 single sign-on
>(SSO), desktop environment integrated collaboration client,
>then the GNOME-Evolution is the solution you are looking for.

This I missed in my searches.  Back to looking at Thunderbird.

> > Or do I somehow have to have multiple simultaneous logins?
>
>I don't see why.  What are you trying to do _exactly_?!
>
>I think you're coming to conclusions based on what you think
>you need, when you're not providing what you really need to
>do -- that's something we can advise you best on.

Not confused.  I have been doing business this way for around 6 years now.

At any time I could have switched to a single executing copy of 
Eudora with multiple personalities.  But I chose not to.

It is important to maintain separateness of my identities.  And as 
things are developing, I may have to fragment further than I have.

I have around 12 - 18 email accounts.  These are grouped into 
(currently) 5 identities (I terminated one identity when a consulting 
gig ended abruptly).  I run at least 2 identities all the time with 
their multiple personalities.  I run the others a couple times a day 
(desktop DOES get cluttered and memory consumed).

All the work documents and mail are organized by identity.

So I am leaning more and more to separate linux users.

> > And switch between them?  I know there is a way to have 4
> > desktops....
>
>You're thinking of the "pager" functionality -- "desktops"
>and/or "viewports" where the terminology varies based on X
>framework.

After finding more gnome documentation, I see they call them workspaces.


>[ **NOTE:  These comparisons to Microsoft WTS/RDP and Citrix
>ICA are rather insults to X-Window, which pre-dates both.

Yes, I remember the flyer that was dropped around one of the ACM 
meetings when X came out.  Around '92 (or was it '87)?  I wish I 
could find it again.  X use to be a real killer.  But then we are not 
running the same Un*x on the same platforms, terminals, networks that 
we were then.