Subj : Re: Windows Managers/Linspire-Lindows To : alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help From : rodsmith Date : Sun Jul 25 2004 10:37 pm In article , technomaNge writes: > > Justin Stanczak wrote: > >> but I've never used Lindows before, but I heard it runs in root mode all >> the time. > > FWIW, Lindows originally was supposed to be "Linux for Windows Idiots". > Vanilla Lindows installation is exactly like vanilla XP installation, > except no activation required. Both install as admin/root and stay > that way until you create a lesser priviledge user. Both offer a chance > to create a user during install. Are you sure that Lindows gives an option to create an ordinary user on installation? I tried installing it a few months ago just to check it out, and I saw no such option when I installed it, and I saw no way to create ordinary users once it was installed. Perhaps the option's buried somewhere that I missed, or perhaps they've changed things, but my brief experience with the distribution was that use of root for everything was mandatory, at least short of digging in with text-mode tools, changing the XDMCP server, etc., to work around the GUI limitations. -- Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com http://www.rodsbooks.com Author of books on Linux, FreeBSD, and networking .