It makes the assumption that every user is an admin
RMS makes the same fallacious assumption, and throws root passwords willy-nilly to the users.
That's for FREEDOM man... FREEDOM! I will thank RMS now for allowing me to have my beer and my FREEDOM too!
Anyway, I'm pretty sure RMS's beef was forcing software developers to conceal their actions from each other... I may be wrong though, and then/. will have to correct me:(
Well, that's questionable... Unplug the machine, hook it directly to a laptop pretending to be the server but with an old signed package list and old signed packages. You have to fool it into fetching the "new" package list though but launching one of the update tray tools that give you "you have x updates waiting" should cover that without entering any password. As far as I know there's no downgrade protection of package lists so it'll happily accept any old package list and install any old version you want it to.
You have physical access... There are SO many more convenient ways of breaking into the box than what you are describing...
Still. This is a bad idea. Non-admins installing software that admins may or may not know about... yeah... whoever thought of this should be taken behind the chemical shed and shot.
I fail to see how not being able to guess the account name of the superuser is a bad thing ^_^
even better, what if you had sudo rights split up between all of your users? O.o It's kinda silly (similar to tinfoil hat linux), but you could have one user for mounting devices, one user for starting certain apps, one user for creating and deleting files, etc...
and we could all type in our passwords by playing tetris in a certain way... that would work!
It's more about censorship than entertainment really...
It's also about businesses who make money by selling products and people getting to use products that they paid for (as opposed to businesses leasing "rights to use" and then charging over and over again whenever there's a change of medium)
I watched an entire 2 seasons of a TV show on karmic running on a dell Latitude e5500. I suspend it all the time and I get more errors from my 9.04 than from my laptop (9.04 requires me to killall gnome-panel on every login as well as change the clock to daylight savings time).
also, fedora is CRAZY more unstable than ubuntu is. Fedora is RHEL's playground, all the stuff that works in fedora is rolled into RHEL. Ubuntu ONLY has Ubuntu, so there's a bigger incentive to be a bit more stable (it's why they didn't just jump to things like OpenOffice 3 when it came out near their release schedule)
The theme is your biggest problem? wtf are you smoking?
What about the adoption of upstart? The new ubuntu software center? The fact that the repos aren't fully updated yet? Update programs without updated plugins (Exaile, VLC, etc), Programs not recognizing the newly updated kernel (ATI drivers?)
Hell... if the theme is your biggest problem, then I call that a painless upgrade:P
PS: I still love the new release ^_^ I've managed to work around all my problems and I have to admit, Karmic is pretty slick
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So what you are saying is that Wolfram Research now owns (Under US law and political/military might) a fundamental law of the universe.
Humanity will never cease to amaze me...
of course!
Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar corporation with it's fingers in almost every aspect of modern computer application development and use.
Google is a... well... Google's logo is better!
Can... Not... Un... See!!!!!!
It makes the assumption that every user is an admin
RMS makes the same fallacious assumption, and throws root passwords willy-nilly to the users.
That's for FREEDOM man... FREEDOM! I will thank RMS now for allowing me to have my beer and my FREEDOM too!
/. will have to correct me :(
Anyway, I'm pretty sure RMS's beef was forcing software developers to conceal their actions from each other... I may be wrong though, and then
Well, that's questionable... Unplug the machine, hook it directly to a laptop pretending to be the server but with an old signed package list and old signed packages. You have to fool it into fetching the "new" package list though but launching one of the update tray tools that give you "you have x updates waiting" should cover that without entering any password. As far as I know there's no downgrade protection of package lists so it'll happily accept any old package list and install any old version you want it to.
You have physical access... There are SO many more convenient ways of breaking into the box than what you are describing...
Still. This is a bad idea. Non-admins installing software that admins may or may not know about... yeah... whoever thought of this should be taken behind the chemical shed and shot.
I fail to see how not being able to guess the account name of the superuser is a bad thing ^_^
even better, what if you had sudo rights split up between all of your users? O.o It's kinda silly (similar to tinfoil hat linux), but you could have one user for mounting devices, one user for starting certain apps, one user for creating and deleting files, etc...
and we could all type in our passwords by playing tetris in a certain way... that would work!
It's more about censorship than entertainment really...
It's also about businesses who make money by selling products and people getting to use products that they paid for (as opposed to businesses leasing "rights to use" and then charging over and over again whenever there's a change of medium)
I can't count. 3 :P
/home/daddy (or worse heh)
Also, if your 6 year old has sudo, she could potentially do a sudo rm -rf
just sayin'
6 year old installing some stuff could cause security problems (if not properly locked down after installation)
-openssh-sever
-vnc4server
-anything (from a random site) that can be run by a gnome desktop launcher
to name 2...
pfft... I just eat my apples whol*pop*
virtually no downsides?
First they'll laser etch your fruit, then they'll laser etch your BABIES!
Drink Tang! I assure you that the label was made with a laser printer (not exactly etching... but burning toner)
as opposed to a power book, a noteboook, a toughbook, and the actual digital replacements for books that are called readers...
I watched an entire 2 seasons of a TV show on karmic running on a dell Latitude e5500. I suspend it all the time and I get more errors from my 9.04 than from my laptop (9.04 requires me to killall gnome-panel on every login as well as change the clock to daylight savings time).
also, fedora is CRAZY more unstable than ubuntu is. Fedora is RHEL's playground, all the stuff that works in fedora is rolled into RHEL. Ubuntu ONLY has Ubuntu, so there's a bigger incentive to be a bit more stable (it's why they didn't just jump to things like OpenOffice 3 when it came out near their release schedule)
mint is ubuntu O.o
or Sorcerer ^_^
if you sudo apt-get install wicd on an ubuntu system, it will remove the network manager and start the wicd daemon for you ^_^
I haven't personally had your issues with networkmanager, but my school requires us to use wicd for their authentication system.
?!
:P
The theme is your biggest problem? wtf are you smoking?
What about the adoption of upstart? The new ubuntu software center? The fact that the repos aren't fully updated yet? Update programs without updated plugins (Exaile, VLC, etc), Programs not recognizing the newly updated kernel (ATI drivers?)
Hell... if the theme is your biggest problem, then I call that a painless upgrade
PS: I still love the new release ^_^ I've managed to work around all my problems and I have to admit, Karmic is pretty slick
I'd rather fight Nazis than a Big American Corporation any day. Nazis smell better...
This should please all three Windows Vista desktop users.
FTFY
Running Debian ^_^
I'm fairly sure you'll get your discs :)
Though when I ordered mine, it took about 3 and a half weeks...
probably won't mail to the same place twice...
O.o giving 6 year old root (or sudo) is a bad idea...
I'm just sayin'...
Unless you opened up a GUI package manager for her with your account and told her to download whatever she liked... which still sounds pretty sketch.