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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] RE:Various kinds of Linux
From:       "Michael S. Mikowski" <z_mikowski () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-12-11 10:51:08
Message-ID: 200212111051.08463.z_mikowski () yahoo ! com
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IIRC, Lindows runs everything as root (administrative user).
This can be very dangerous; in fact, this is why many argue Win95/98/ME (and 
to a certain extent, Win2K and WinXP) are intrinsically inferior products.

I'd recommend using something a little more secure.  Xandros probably does it 
right.  Mandrake is good if you want to tinker and you want things a little 
more bleeding edge.  Their update package is fairly good, and they are mostly 
RedHat compatible.

Cheers,

Mike

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:25 pm, Adam Ellis wrote:
> Along the same lines as Xandros, you might want to consider Lindows.  It
> is very easy to install and is based on debian (first thing you should
> do it ditch click-n-run for apt-get).  I have to say, though, that I am
> not a huge fan of these commercial flavors of Linux.  I use debian
> because it is a truly Free distro...a less-pretty installation routine
> is a small price to pay.



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