On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 11:37 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 22:57, Basil Chupin wrote:
I discovered yesterday that ubuntu/kubuntu is rubbish: it cannot handle my 6-month old nVidia card (a 6600)
Kubuntu was released more than 6 month ago. It does take a little while to get the latest hardware in, and with anything Debian, it takes quite a little longer.
My last foray into *ubuntu scared me away when I found you could:
sudo passwd root
As any user and set the root password. Now, knowing this is a good thing, but having a default installation setup this way is a huge security issue.
I think that this is also standard for Knoppix as well. No doubt those folks interested in getting involved with Ubuntu, will find out how to do a lock down on their systems. OTOH, for the next laptop that I install SuSE on, I'm going to want they user to be able to sudo some of the YaST setup tools, such as printers, and networking, and not be able to install applications without my permission.