[haiku-development] Re: Multi-user is a mistake
- From: "Jason Gullickson" <jason.gullickson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:59:00 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:50 PM, looncraz <looncraz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I thought I'd share some insight into this, considering I created
> several working psuedo multi-user systems (MUS) for BeOS back in the day.
> Personally, I never needed or liked multi-user systems, but when I was
> talking about building a distribution from PE (and then Dano) the number
> one request was multi-user support.
> Up to a few years ago people were still using PhOS and my MUS in
> surprising numbers - the most cited reason, other than stability, was
> the multi-user support. My #1 requested changes were in regards to
> multi-user capabilities (most wanted to be able to have multiple
> concurrent logins - similar to XP).
> A REAL multi user capability is, for better or worse, critical for
> Haiku's future. The sooner the details regarding the nature of the
> Haiku MUS are fleshed out, the better. It shouldn't be too hard to
> setup the build system to allow building of a separate single-user and
> multi-user version considering how much work is to be done still.
> Indeed, the kernel could just be set to ignore groups/users.
> --The loon
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