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rootrootPosted Feb 18, 2003 20:49 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66)In reply to: root by mattdm Parent article: Lindows.com introduces antivirus system
Unless things have changed, Lindows runs everything as root by default... You're kidding. I have to admit, to this day I'd only had vaguely negative feelings about Lindows because of the name, but with no real hard evidence for them (and thus I sort of ignored them). But if this is true-- well, shoot, what a bad idea. Throw much of the advatnage of Unix out the window. I guess they did it to make things easier, but heck, that's just a bad idea from the word go. Now I have a real concrete reason (beyond negative feelings that come from the name) to advise anybody interested in Linux to utterly eschew Lindows and instead use another distribution. The tradeoff is an additional few minutes necessary to learn the concept of logging in as root to install system software and updates. Well worth it, if you care at all about keeping your system running. -Rob
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