Thread: Installing Application on MMC??
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2006-09-24 , 11:34
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#8
Originally Posted by anidel
Well, not that I am saying they are stupid, but if Nokia (well, Linux distros in general) were clever enough, they'd packaged each application in its own directory letting it write and read its data files from the application's directory. A la Mac OS X.
That'd be REALLY clever and would make up a REALLY clean file system
I would not call it clever at all. I would call it simple.

Linux is multiuser networked operating system and the filesystem hierarchy is suitable for this.

Writing data to application directory is not clever and secure in multiuser system or in a system where aplications are shared from server via network (NFS).

However such system would be of course enough for single user systems (such as some desktops or PDAs) but still I wouldn't call it clever for many reasons (how would you backup only user data without applications?).