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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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"Most important" - oh no... 2005-05-04
Phlebas
"What's the most important thing on your desktop? It's the data."

Not quite. It's true that by breaching your defenses a bad guy will gain access to your data, and that's bad. But there are two sets of data not on your desktop that are equally important:

1. Your data elsewhere. E.g. in the ban...

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