[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 20:15:57 CDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:38 AM, oiaohm <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Now Timeout is just been a better and better case why wine should just jack up as running as root.
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>  Everyone (Not exactly).  This is if wine should or should not be forbid to run as root.  Distribution operation selections have really nothing to do with it.
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>  Everyone here is getting off topic.   Also please don't repeat old out bad directions.
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>  Gimp instead of Photoshop no that does not happen really  Krita + cinepaint more likely.  Note cinepaint is channel width upgraded gimp.    2.6 gimp will hopefully be able to work with 32 bit per color data.
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>  Also lot of pointing to applications is pointless without knowing the features they need.  Look at one program alone because its the most advertised leads to people missing out better applications out there.
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>  Same seams to be common for Timeout security skill.  First thing I do when I move platform is find out how its security works.  This non though threw pointing is this a trait of new users?
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>  Out of this I am wondering if we should have website links with advice on security related failures.   Most likely since I have been using Linux from 1994 I could never think this level of incompetence could exist.
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