[ale] Linux Distributions

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Tue May 17 15:08:30 EDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 14:25 -0400, Chris Ricker wrote:
> They can't do "sudo mkfs /dev/hda8" (unless you misconfigured sudo).

Misconfigured? Or just configured for easy use (NOPASSWD: ALL)?

> This is ultimately the same reason we don't need anti-virus scanning to 
> protect Linux desktops. 

Better re-think that if you value your user data.  Which takes more
time: reinstalling the OS or rebuilding your user data/configs/etc?

-Jim P.





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