<OT> Linux now avaible in stores

[Matthew Carpenter]

Funny this should be brought up so soon after my enforced XP journey of
late.  I've been meaning to comment on how the maintainer of the XP box I am
currently running made my user ID part of the administrators group.  He said
it had to be that way to work right...  I thought all the rhetoric about
Windows and running as administrator was just that, rhetoric.
I guess not!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Moffat" <kmoffat at drizzle.com>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: <OT> Linux now avaible in stores


> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:42:22AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Its fricking mozilla.  Its not like Lindows wrote their own or
anything.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Yes, of course it is mozilla, but, it is configured to work.
> >>For example, no font problems, and plugins work as expected.
> >>Joel
> >>
> >>
> >
> >That's been the case with mozilla for nearly 2 years now.  Once again,
> >Lindows has nothing to do with it, although they appear to be doing a
fine
> >job convincing you that they have.
> >
> >
> >
>
> I'm not sure I totally agree with that, although I do feel Lindows is
> not for me, and running as root is to be avoided. (I can't believe they
> do that)
>
> Lindows may run the scripts during install that download and install the
> various plugins (flash, realplay, java, whatever) that allow seamless
> access to multimedia. When mozilla is installed on many distros, you
> must do some grunt work to get it all working.
>
> Libranet has a utility that will download and install several plugins to
> moz, but that's after the install. And I think there are intellectual
> property rights involved with packaging these plugins with a distro.
>
> I have no experience with Lindows, so take it for a grain of salt.
>
> -- 
> Ken
>
>
>
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