On April 28, 2004, 10:25, Daniel Cardenas - AZ wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > What do you think of the idea of having a debian desktop release real > soon? In order to get it out real soon the only difference would be a Hi guys, I'm a proponent of "release early, release often" but I don't know what the status of Debian Desktop is. As far as I noticed things are still not ready to be released. Madkiss? > There are a bunch of other simple changes we could try for example > soften the security model. Debian does a bunch of things to prevent a > normal user from abusing the system. Details: root can't access the > screen without executing xauth (blah) command. On a single user system > is this desired? Perhaps we could eliminate the need to execute xauth. OH MY GOD! Are you serious? I already see the DAUs swearing at their Linux box just because they accidentally screwed it. The Linux/Debian security model isn't sth. which is just there for fun or to annoy users. When you soften such a fine system of privileges you would negate one of Linux' greatest benefits: Security and Stability! Max
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