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Fedora 16 Will Number UIDs From 1000

Posted by Unknown on from the two-hundred-uids-should-be-enough-for-anyone dept.

dotancohen writes "Sharing users between Fedora and Debian-based distros just got a little easier. Beginning with Fedora 16, the Red-Hat based distro will number its human user UIDs starting from 1000, as opposed to the old 500. Though this change is intended to facilitate interoperability with other distros, it risks breaking backward compatibility with older Fedora releases including the newly released Fedora 15."

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  1. This is progress in the Linux world? by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Troll

    No wonder it's not the year of the Linux desktop yet.

    Sheesh. No shiny. Requires mathematics to understand.

    Lame.

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