[ale] Linspire and other commercial distros

[Chris Woodfield]

I find it interesting that a Linux vendor would come to that decision while 
Apple, who arguable caters to a comparitively less savvy target market, 
would make the opposite...

-C

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:16:38PM -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:21:08AM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I do not know why they chose to run as root.  In our J2EE server that we
> > sell sometimes the tomcat user needs to be root to do system related
> > stuff.  I use sudo to accomplish that.
> 
> Slashdot did an interview with Michael Robertson a while back, and this
> was one of the questions asked.  His response was, IIRC, that they
> thought it would be too confusing for users to have to enter the root
> password every time they want to install software or administer the
> system.  A lame response to an extremely stupid decision, IMHO.
> 
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