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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 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.

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

    Linus Torvalds is the Harlan Ellison of Linux.

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