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Old 01-18-2007, 05:00 AM
Ivan Tisljar
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Re: My PCLinuxOS experience

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:25:05 +0100, Yrrah
<Yrrah.YrrahYrrah.Yrrah********.com> wrote:

>Anthony Irwin <nospam@noemailhere.nowhere>:
>
>> It is the a way of structuring the system so you know where things are
>> and is similar to the program files directory in windows.

>
>Which I don't use. I install applications on a separate partition with
>my own directory/folder structure.


Why, on earth's name? I can't think of any reason for that. Those
green apps (which don't use registry) can be instaled wherever you
want; but others... when you reinstall, you'd have to reinstall most
of them, because you don't have nececary registry keys.

Ivan.

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