Getting people to say nice things about Microsoft (Linspire repo)
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 14:56:49 UTC 2007
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Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 06:05 -0800, David Boles wrote:
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>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>> On Thu January 25 2007, Claude Jones wrote:
>>>> they have a weird
>>>> way of databasing the thing and when you open Yumex or Smart
>>> Just re-read this and realized/remembered Freespire doesn't use yum - the only
>>> package manager it came with was the CNR one, which they tried to get you to
>>> sign up for, and pay money for, the first time you use it - that was last
>>> year. I used apt-get to download Synaptic package manager, and that worked
>>> fine as long as you knew about it. It came up configured with the huge repo
>>> list and that's what I was watching check the 160+ repo lists each time I ran
>>> it.
>>
>> Would know if Freespire has the same security flaw that Linspire has?
>> Everything by design in Linspire is run as 'root'. The GUI desktop. The
>> applications. The whole thing. Just like Windows does.
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> Like Ric & Gene
Oh. Ok. Thanks.
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David
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