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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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Cleanliness next to Rootliness 2005-04-28
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If what I want is an OS that puts no limits on user privileges so that my grandmother can change her wallaper (or anything else about her system), why wouldn't I just have my grandmother use Windows?

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