Roaming User Support - Questions...

[Helge Deller]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 19:38, Dr. Juergen Pfennig wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 19:04, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 
> > If ~/.kde is on a central NFS mount
> 
> Oh! About 95% of all network shares on this planet are smb (or novell) NFS is 
> completely exotic because only very few computers have drivers for it (mostly 
> UNIX or Linux but their market share is only <= 2%). So sorry - but NFS is 
> meaningless and we should forget it!

This is your assumption. Of course smb has a big market, but why should KDE 
developers care for a Windows server infrastructure? If a company has decided 
to go with windows, then OK. IMHO they can stay with their decision.
But KDE is a UNIX project, and here NFS is a standard.
Maybe you should ask Microsoft to provide a NFS bridge for their servers, then
your whole question would be meaningless.

> Why do so many KDE developers restrict their view of the world to Linux? 

maybe because KDE is a UNIX/Linux based project ?

> In  the real world most users of Linux/KDE will be "guests" in an infrastructure 
> that is designed for Windows. Do you really want to confine KDE/Linux to a 
> windows-free ghetto?

Personally I really love this idea.
Not very long ago Windows started as Unix-free ghetto and IMHO it still is.

Helge