[ale] which distro warns you not to run as root with a message window

audilover at atlantabroadband.com audilover at atlantabroadband.com
Thu Mar 25 09:54:26 EST 2004


Quoting Jim Lynch <jwl at sgi.com>:

> I don't know about the other one, but Lindows definitely runs as root out 
> of the box.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> At 12:21 PM 3/24/2004, Dow Hurst wrote:
> >At the last ALE-NW KSU LUG meeting, which distro of the three reviewed 
> >warned the user not to run as root?  It was either Lycoris or Lindows 
> >since I remember it wasn't Xandros.
> >Dow
> >
> >--
During the install Lindows only asked for a root password.  It never asked the
user to set up any other account.  The distro that displayed the warning when
logging into to KDM as root was Lycoris.

Ray



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