Lindows.com - Friend or Foe? [LWN.net]

Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

Posted Jun 26, 2003 6:23 UTC (Thu) by ttonino (guest, #4073)
In reply to: Lindows.com - Friend or Foe? by TimCunningham
Parent article: Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

"Reaching masses" will not make Linux worse, but will give rise to many more applications, and thus many more developers. And more eyes finding bugs - which is good.

If you want to run something your neighbour doesn't, there's always something to be found I think. BSD - Plan9 - Hurd - ???

Thomas

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Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

Posted Jun 26, 2003 10:16 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581) [Link]

'"Reaching masses" will not make Linux worse`

Well, actually, this _is_ a real concern. Installing unneccessary services is a security hazard, as is having more than is neccessary running with root privelege. In the interests of "convenience" Lindows has unfortunately run foul of both of these traps.

I for one do not want to see the legendary reliability & security benefits of linux over Windows undermined by insecure distributions, however large their user base.

Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

Posted Jun 26, 2003 20:34 UTC (Thu) by TimCunningham (guest, #10316) [Link]

If you want to run something your neighbour doesn't, there's always something to be found I think. BSD - Plan9 - Hurd - ???

I never said that I wanted to run something specifically because other people don't; all I ment was that I don't care one way or the other. I suppose the argument can be made that that'll increase the software support for Linux, but I'm not dissatisfied as it stands, so I'm not overly concerned about that, either.