On Monday 02 June 2003 13:33, BAGGAB wrote:
> Problem: when I want to logon to internet I use KPPP, but I
> have to provide my root password for permission. I am
> concerned about running root permissions while connected to the
> internet.
The cool thing about 'nix systems (whether it's Linux, BSD or
whatever) is that doing this causes only that one process to run
as root. You're still your normal, unpriveleged self in your
browser, your email client, and all of your other applications.
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And now, my comment on the religious war:
I read through all of the distro-religious-war stuff posted here
and I like what Ben Barrett had to say about it.
When you get into a religious war over distros, remember that ALL
of Linux is looked down upon by the BSD folks. So be careful.
I started out with Slackware in 1995 and could never get Xwindows
to launch (turned out it was a poorly-supported video card).
Finally, out of frustration I tried Red Hat in 1999 because I
figured that, being the most popular distro at that time, there
would be more people who knew how to configure it. It cost me a
marriage, but I finally got X to launch.
I'm still using Red Hat. I tried Mandrake last year and found it
too dumbed-down for my tastes.
Say what you want about corporations (I do NOT believe that they
are inherently evil; some are evil and some are not) but AFAICS
Red Hat and Suse are the only two who are actually DOING anything
about getting Linux onto corporate desktops -- and that is what
has to happen if we want to have any hope at all of pulling the
industry back from the edge of the cliff we're presently on.
In a corporate desktop environment, you're paying people to keep
the computers working. You need to use your desktop support
techs' time as efficiently as possible. You can't afford to have
them sit around building systems by hand from scratch, compiling
apps on workstations, and so forth.
And Red Hat IMO does a good job of enabling support techs to
build, maintain and patch systems efficiently. They're not the
only distro to do that, and they certainly have a lot of room to
improve. But they do make it reasonably easy to do these chores
in a standardized environment -- and they even make it easy to
HAVE a standardized environment.
I haven't seen Red Hat destroying competitors, deploying
proprietary code to lock people in to their products, or any of
the other blatant abuses of ethics that are legendary at
Micro$oft. I think calling them the Micro$oft of Linux is
patently unfair.
Now I have to get some work done. I actually have other things to
do besides reading this list.
Ken
--
"In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to
anyone. ... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to
mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they
both desire the exchange. ... This is the only possible form of
relationship between equals. Anything else is a relationship of
slave to master, or victim to executioner."
-- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
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