Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu

[Shawn McMahon]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:24:00AM -0300, Derek Broughton said:
> 
> This article is hardly worth the effort to refute.  "Want to set up your
> clock to the right time? You'll be seeing this screen a lot..." - and then
> he shows you the password popup for synaptic :-)  Still, it's a valid point
> but entirely misses the reasons why security is good - or even why it's
> necessary to require an admin password to change the clock.

He'll be very disappointed when he sees Windows Vista doing the same
thing a lot, for the same reasons we do it.


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