Re: Linux ease of use

On Friday 24 October 2003 02:21, Daniel C. von Asmuth wrote:
> The good news is of course, that you need to be root to install software,
> and hopefully root will think for half a second before installing the
> latest trojan.

A popular misconception.
You can install software as a user into your own user space
~/bin.  And thats probably where most of the click-install
software should go.  At least it can't do harm to anyone
except that particular user.

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John Andersen