Re: Linux ease of use

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 12:51, John Andersen wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 02:21, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> > The good news is of course, that you need to be root to install software,
> > and hopefully root will think for half a second before installing the
> > latest trojan.
> 
> A popular misconception.
> You can install software as a user into your own user space
> ~/bin.  And thats probably where most of the click-install
> software should go.  At least it can't do harm to anyone
> except that particular user.
> 
> -- 
Actually nothing should be in /bin it should be in /usr/local/bin /bin
gets killed during upgrades and should be distro software only. 
secondly click and install is available in KDE (its a user space thing
not a kernel one) the GUI lets you click on an RPM and it will run you
through the install.  <most of us "geeks" just avoid using it but it is
there. :)

Thank You