Long-running arguement, I know, but someone's not heard of your Multi-user pup
Would you care to comment to JeffM on googlegroups?
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os. ... 3d75d399aeJeffM wrote:Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>http://distrolove.blogspot.com/2009/09/ ... ux-2u.html
>|[...]sure it is best[sic] than windows 98.
>|Now I can say it is a perfect windows killer.
Well, it has the same lousy security model as Win98 (none at all).
When folks' Puppy boxes get pwned, Linux gets a black eye. 8-(
The same 99.999 percent of Win98 users
who never installed/configured M$'s System Policy Editor
will also never Google up the directions needed
to reconfigure Puppy to add less-privileged users
--instead of the always-run-as-root default.
With the number of folks running Puppy,
I'm surprized there isn't a Puppy-specific botnet.
Aitch
