Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 17:20 UTC, submitted by george
Ubuntu developers are finalising preparations for the release of the next version - dubbed Feisty Fawn - of the popular Linux distribution in mid-April. Overnight, Ubuntu developer Tollef Fog Heen announced Ubuntu's main software repository had been frozen - with no changes allowed to the code - as developers got ready to issue a fifth major test version ('Herd 5') of the next version of Ubuntu.
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2005-07-08
There are plenty of things that bug the hell out of me about *buntu, but this is not one. It's not a security enhancement, that much is true, but from the standpoint of usability it's a great feature. User does not run as root regularly, but has access to root privs when needed so they can make system modifications and/or install software.
And lets face it, most folks I know who run a root-requiring system and don't care about security tend to use a stupid password for their user (enter or "password" anyone?) and the same stupid password for root. Priv separation doesn't make a damn bit of difference if every lock in your house, even the lock to the safe, uses a single easy to "guess" key (god I hate real-word analogies, but until we come up with something better, it's what we have. At least it wasn't a car analogy...).