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Torvalds Calls OpenSUSE Security 'Too Intrusive'

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. Re:Only root? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeehaw...!!!! Bitch fight!!!! :))))))