[ale] Linspire and other commercial distros

[Christopher Fowler]

I guess he has never heard of sudo.  Even if Linspire is a script kiddie
based compnay he could have easily written a C program to do what sudo
does if he did not know about sudo.  Aparently lack of understanding
UNIX internals would have been the correct response to Slashdot.
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 16:16, 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.