cross-platform virus

[John]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:
>

>>
>> I think that would only serve to increase support traffic even more 
>> and introduce confusion. We are already swamped with "I typed my root 
>> password and nothing happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" type posts, 
>> surely we don't want more and also have two explain to switch-to-root 
>> systems? With sudo, a single default setup suits most single users 
>> well, and it scales up.
>>
> it does not suit users of other Linuxes at all. When they use Ubuntu, 
> they find they can't do anything which requires root privileges (because 
> most of the time they have never even heard of sudo) and they just leave 
> it and say "isn't that a crap distro." This has to change.

As I recall, it was explained to me when I installed Warty.

What Ubuntu does is what Apple OS X does, it's very like Windows XP/2003 
"run as."

I'm comfortable with Ubuntu's use of sudo, I'd like the others to make 
it an option.

> 
> Furthermore, many major Linux distributions provide these sorts of 
> choices, eg. Fedora.

Fedora uses the su approach (tho I think it's not actually su anymore, 
it's something that works with selinux. Runas maybe).