[LUNI] Ever heard of SimplyMEPIS Linux?

[Martin Maney]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:22:52AM -0700, sean-lynch at sean-lynch.com wrote:
> Thanks Martin. My ignorance kept me from trying Ubuntu in 
> some business situations, but the lack of root could be a 
> good thing for thwarting hackers.

Maybe, but I wouldn't place any reliance on that.  As I may have said
elsewhere, hackers either get root by other means than a root login (so
they don't care if that's available), or else if they acquire the
login/password by other means it doesn't much matter if it's direct
root or an admin account with sudo privs.  Oh, it may act as a
speedbump, and speedbumps are worth adding if they don't cost too much,
but it's not a very large one.  :-)

-- 
The dualist evades the frame problem - but only because
dualism draws the veil of mystery and obfuscation
over all the tough how-questions  -- Daniel C. Dennett