Funny this should be brought up so soon after my enforced XP journey of late. I've been meaning to comment on how the maintainer of the XP box I am currently running made my user ID part of the administrators group. He said it had to be that way to work right... I thought all the rhetoric about Windows and running as administrator was just that, rhetoric. I guess not!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Moffat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: Re: <OT> Linux now avaible in stores > Net Llama! wrote: > > >On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 07:42:22AM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Its fricking mozilla. Its not like Lindows wrote their own or anything. > >>> > >>> > >>Yes, of course it is mozilla, but, it is configured to work. > >>For example, no font problems, and plugins work as expected. > >>Joel > >> > >> > > > >That's been the case with mozilla for nearly 2 years now. Once again, > >Lindows has nothing to do with it, although they appear to be doing a fine > >job convincing you that they have. > > > > > > > > I'm not sure I totally agree with that, although I do feel Lindows is > not for me, and running as root is to be avoided. (I can't believe they > do that) > > Lindows may run the scripts during install that download and install the > various plugins (flash, realplay, java, whatever) that allow seamless > access to multimedia. When mozilla is installed on many distros, you > must do some grunt work to get it all working. > > Libranet has a utility that will download and install several plugins to > moz, but that's after the install. And I think there are intellectual > property rights involved with packaging these plugins with a distro. > > I have no experience with Lindows, so take it for a grain of salt. > > -- > Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
