[wellylug] Some fun in this sad world

[Brenda Wallace]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, Tony Booth wrote:
> Hi Brenda
> 
> This was meant to be a dig at Lindows for calling it a full version when
> it really wasn't.  I certainly didn't mean it to be a dig at you.

I didn't think it was a dig @ me :-D
no worries


> And as you say, $20 ain't bad.
> 
> Lindows has had some good reviews lately.  The purists complain that
> Lindows has a horrible security model (the sole user is root by default,
> with no password!), but I imagine that's exactly what the average
> PC-user, with no Linux background, needs.  I've tried explaining the
> multi-user idea to my parents, but they always ask me to compare it to
> something in Windows that they can understand!

I'd forgotten about that... one of the things that irritates me in win2K
is when i need to do something that needs admin rights, then i have to
exit everything and log out... Is lindows multi-user?? if so, are all
the users root level users all the time?? is there any security between
users?