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Cleanliness next to Rootliness
Daniel Hanson, 2005-04-27

Linspire's arguments to only run a desktop system as root has everything to do with privilege seperation, privilege escalation, and some design choices made along the way.

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Amen! 2005-04-27
Anonymous
"Run everything as root, there's no big security issues here" is the biggest load of spit I've heard in a while. Ubuntu operates on a rootless security model, SELinux/grsecurity/RSBAC aim to establish roles so that root processes have limited scope, and Zones are like a chroot()^10. These things exi...

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