With Hard disks the size and price they are now,, it would be great to see a system like that with a 20 or 30 gig in it, loaded to the hilt with all of the apps that people use..
evolution, mozilla etc etc etc.. and madrake are not far off the ball with all this... They should take what "inovations" Lindows introduced (like the C drive button, which I suggested on this list over a year ago..) and the network neighbourhood setup and copy it.. (adjusted to suit) and any of the auto config stuff.. then they can do the same thing as Lindows without the mistakes "Lindows" made, like running as root. a: The Menu system should be tweaked so that a default application is listed in each category, and a like to "Alternatives" under it.. so as an example, Kmail is the default mail reader in the menu, and under it is a menu directory of the other mail clients, and the menu app monitors which one gets used the most and makes it the default.. so if the user uses Evolution the most, Evolution becomes the default in the menu... that would work. b: Not run as root.. Mandrakes use of the password box whenever a admin task is run is much bettter. c. Prefab install makes the install issue moot anyway.. but the auto monitor detection in Lindows is great. copy that. d. Make OpenOffice.org a default part of the install.. the lack of it (MS Office compatable product) will be a major annoyance to windows users, the first time someone sends them a Word document. e. Autodetection and setup of printers needs to be improved bigtime.. ditto scanners. f. Lots of links to linuxdoc.org and www.google.com/linux would be a good idea too.. since nearly every problem I have had was resolved by seaching one of those.. (and mandrakes huge repository of docs as well) put them all together into a "Help" application.. where you type in a question, and it does its best to find an answer..) (thats simplified, but you get the idea.) Mandrake could fairly easily make an OEM Mandrake that does all that and more.. and sell it as an OEM package where the merchant "Tailors" the package to their hardware.. and works more or less like Windoze preinstall... Linux is ready for the desktop in some cases.. it just needs the right approach.. and the linux crowds attitude of RTFM and STFW just can't be used with newbies.. they need at least 2 months linux experiance before you tell them that.. :-) Just some thoughts.. long live linux... The day I read that linux has 50 percent marketshare of destops as well as the majority of servers is the day I start having faith in human nature again. regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of D. Olson Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2002 12:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK? On Wednesday 03 July 2002 06:51 pm, you wrote: > If that was true, yes, you would be more open to viruses (virii isn't a > word), but since Lindows has made it clear that users log in using > usernames and passwords, I think that they have fixed this hole. > > Unless I read their FAQ wrong... Well paint me purple and call me Barney..... Looks like they didn't bother changing it, but they did mention it in the FAQ... "The lurking terror of Root So far I haven't addressed the questionable design decision to make the user run as root. This opens the door for viruses and insecurities like the ones that have plagued Windows for years. The Unix system of limited privileges has been an effective means of restricting viral code. To throw all that away now seems very foolish."
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