<OT> Linux now avaible in stores

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:40:58AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> 
>> I've been leery of Lindows since reading that they run everything
>> as root.  If that's true, it's no more secure than the average
>> Windows box.
>> 
>
>Yes, but, you can easily add a regular user, just like with any linux
>distro. Using root as the usual user is just laziness or ignorance (I
>plead laziness!). 

Designing to enable that laziness is one of the primary reasons that
Windows >=NT has such major security problems (win <=98 has no security no
matter what one does :-).

Bill
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