lindows comes to walmart

[Michael Hipp]

Pragmatically speaking, it's a non-issue. These are throw-away boxes. The 
most critical piece of data inside will be the latest joke-of-the day 
forwarded by Aunt Fredia.

Most system corruption is not done by users poking around where they 
shouldn't, but by sloppy software installer programs. Or, in the case of 
Windows, by the O/S corrupting itself.

If Linux is ever to become desktop mainstream, this is the sort of sacrilege 
that will the the order of the day. May as well get used to it.

Michael

On Saturday 15 June 2002 02:18 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Nothing wrong as running as root except:
>
> 1. Those viruses will run with root priviledge, too. You should at least
> read your email as a regular user.
> 2. You can alter crucial system files without wanting to.
> 3. It makes a mockery out of the concept of a multiuser computer system.
>
> That said, I can easily see the advantage of running always as root. I
> guess Microsoft saw them, too. That's why they are so successful.
>
> Joel
>
>
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