try the dvd rather than the cd On 21/04/07, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Rowson wrote On 04/21/2007 01:18 PM: > >> Going back to the security aspect > >> (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=5313), it's terrifying to see > >> how ex-Windows user are willing to sacrifice Linux security culture > >> for the sake a shiny desktop, and scarier still that none of the > >> reviewers (Linux.com, Distrowatch, Polishlinux) even picked up on it. > >> > > > > Hmmm I'd not heard of it before now, - reading around some info on the > > distro though, its a pretty shocking way to set up a system. Its > > begging for exploitation. > > > > Fortunately it doesn't seem to have really taken off yet. Lets just > > hope it doesn't either! > > > > Chris > > > > > There's a kind of dream logic to the way the various developers are > trying to justify it; > > "We're merely drawing the logic of D-Bus and HAL to its logical > conclusion, but if -- presumably as a complete newbie -- you're unhappy > about this policy and want to alter some obscure config files, then > that's fine too!" > (http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-users/2007-April/000031.html) > > "But it is safe; you know nothing of my programming prowess, puny > human!" (reply #18, http://polishlinux.org/?p=307&cp=all#comments) > > "As a UNIX sysadmin, I ran as root all the time and it never did me any > harm!" (Mar 23, 2007 (06:03 PM), > http://www.beranger.org/index.php?fullarticle=2677) > > I wrote to Bruce Schneier about all this, hoping he would deliver the > fatal blow, but these days he seems more preoccupied with dolphins and > squid. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
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