[ubuntu-uk] FWD: [[Hampshire] Report on Tesco Ubuntu machine]

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 08:42 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:24:47AM +0000, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > > Not to mention selling a machine with a default user name and password
> > > already set up. That blows any idea that Ubuntu is secure right out of
> > > the water!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony.
> > 
> > Why on earth wouldn't the silly sods have run the install mode for OEMs option?
> > 
> 
> I know the OEM option works well in recent releases, but given they 
> installed Dapper, is it as reliable under that version. I don't know, I've 
> never used it.
> 
> Perhaps they have a sensible reason for doing it this way. Perhaps... they 
> don't actually give a monkeys what is installed, they just chose a Linux 
> distro so they could omit windows and thus get an attractive price point.
> 
> > To be honest the whole affair sounds shocking. Is this a fluke/one off
> > or are all of these esys PCs this badly configured?
> > 
> 
> Is it really that bad? 
> 
> Sounds like a typical out of the box install really.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
No I think feisty's wasn't brilliant.  Gutsy's has been the best to date
and that had a lot of issues that needed working out.  Most of them were
though.  I think you'll find that is why Dell created their own system
for rolling installs.
-- 
Seek That Thy Might Know
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