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Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive'

Posted by Unknown on from the permission-denied dept.

jfruh writes "The balance between security and ease of use is always a tricky one to strike, and Linux distros tend to err on the side of caution. But no less a luminary than Linus Torvalds thinks openSUSE has gone too far. When his kid needed to call from school for the root password just so he could add a printer to a laptop, that's when Linus decided things had gone off the rails."

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  1. Only root? by busyqth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bah! Back in the day we recompiled the kernel to add a printer!
    AND WE LIKED IT THAT WAY!!

    1. Re:Only root? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, newfangled drivers in the kernel... Back in the day, we had to manually pull the bits out of the computer, put them in a bucket, and transport them to the printer manually!

    2. Re:Only root? by Toe,+The · · Score: 5, Funny

      You mean sneakernet? That's nothing.
      Back in the day, we had to manually place dots onto the paper using a handheld carbon-marking device.
      On the plus side, it did have an undo function built right into the final product.

    3. Re:Only root? by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Papyrus? Pah! Youngsters! Back in my day, we had to find a granite boulder to carve the letters into. With a herring!

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    4. Re:Only root? by jameskojiro · · Score: 4, Funny

      Pheromone Trails, are you kidding me, back in my day we used to have to encode chemical messages in our DNA over many generations before we could pass them on to our offspring.

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    5. Re:Only root? by busyqth · · Score: 4, Funny

      I still do that.

    6. Re:Only root? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Postscript is an Apple conspiracy, designed to wear out electrons by sending too many of them through the printer cable.

      That's why you need a Monster Cable. The larger conductors and lubricated sheathing minimize wear. This both maximizes cable lifetime and ensures that the bits better retain their shape as they transit the cable.

    7. Re:Only root? by Barefoot+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are the frozen herring red by any chance? I've been looking for one forever but can never quite seem to find it.

      Wild geese are known to hunt herrings of that colour. What you should do is look for a wild goose and follow it to see where it goes. That will surely be the best fishing spot for you.

    8. Re:Only root? by Barefoot+Monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Postscript is an Apple conspiracy, designed to wear out electrons by sending too many of them through the printer cable.

      I think you meant Adobe.

      Adobe is an Apple conspiracy! Just look at the first and last letters. Do you think that is merely a coincidence?

  2. My hypothesis... by brennanw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linus Torvalds is the Harlan Ellison of Linux.

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  3. Ironic by Kamiza+Ikioi · · Score: 3, Funny

    But... G+ is a ghost town? Just yesterday, people were saying, oh, gee, why would I even be interested in G+? Now /. is pulling stories directly from there.

    Mmm Hmmm...

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