Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Ingemar Nilsson init at pdc.kth.se
Wed Apr 25 16:32:08 UTC 2007


"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> I've never had a software installation touch my personal files. You
> should save your work in /home/user, where software installation
> doesn't touch (with the exception of the dot files, where your work
> shouldn't be stored either).

That's not entirely true. I had some remote filesystems mounted using SSHFS
in a subdirectory to my home directory, and Yum complained about some
access permission in those remote directories when doing an update. I had
no idea why it would want to touch anything there.

Regards
Ingemar




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