Linked by Adam S on Wed 25th Sep 2002 02:21 UTC
The Linux community has been buzzing about LindowsOS since its original announcement over a year ago. With Michael Robertson, founder of mp3.com, at the helm, it was heralded as a Linux that could seamlessly run all of your Windows applications. As details became available, the skepticism of the community grew and with the LindowsOS general release only months away, no one is quite sure what to make of Lindows.com and their product, LindowsOS. We tested Lindows 2.0 and we today present the most in-depth review ever written for this much-talked OS, accompanied by a number of shots.
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The main point of "don't run as root!" was missing from this article. Sure, logging in as root and using the system regularly is bad and should be avoided, but it's not *that* serious. The real problem is not "ooh! I accidentally deleted something!" The real problem is, once you're running as root, all of your inputs run as root too...
So when you run evolution and read your e-mail, any old thing that you get from the net can be run as root. When you download things from the web you're running it as root. You should not run everything as root because you can't trust everything else you get from the net, not because you can't trust yourself.