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Spawn of Debian faceoff: LindowsOS 4.5 (NewsForge)

[Posted January 7, 2004 by ris]

NewsForge looks at some Debian based distributions, starting with this review of LindowsOS 4.5. "As far as security issues go, the negative "buzz" is wrong. A firewall is installed by default. Users are not encouraged to run as root, but you can see how many will simply because they are not urged strongly enough not to do so. The use of a password is encouraged. LindowsOS does an OK job of keeping a system secure, but not a great one."

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