On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:56:37AM +0100, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:27:22AM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
kpwatson@pop3.ukfsn.org wrote:
Gotta see and hear this; http://www.linspire.com/RunLinspireFlash.php
Excellent! Has anyone in the LUG actually tried this product yet?
I have mainly heard bad things about it, mostly the "everything runs as root after the install"
They have this to say on the subject http://info.linspire.com/askmichael/question9.htm
So basically the default install leaves you in a similar state to a default install of a Microsoft desktop OS and we know how well the average user takes steps to lock their machine down, don't we :-/
*EWWW*. Why can't they do something more akin to knoppix, which though sick and wrong, at least doesn't run all the system as root but instead as the Knoppix user, who then has sudo access (with no password) to root. Cleaner, would give lindows as much flexibility and would mean that netscape and other things work (that check that they're not being run by UID=0...) does this mean that the lindows lot hacked lots of the software to stop that from being an issue?
*Truly appalled by the idea of everything running as root*