cross-platform virus

[Sasha Tsykin]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 07:13:35 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
>> [sudo...]
>> As soon as gnome/ubuntu actually becomes "linux for 
>> grandma", the shit will hit the fan, I'm afraid.
> 
> The simple answer is not to put grandma in the admin group, which is
> actually probably more realistic than it sounds.
> 
> If it does become a problem, we simply (try to) educate users that they
> should do normal work with an account that doesn't have sudo privileges, and
> only log into an admin account when they need to do admin activities.
> Obviously a pain, but this is not a likely future anyway IMHO.
> 
> Pete
> 
I disagree, it is a very likely future. Microsoft is alrady losing 
market share, to the point that there are actually features in Vista 
designed to attract people back from Linux, like a much more powerful 
terminal prompt, ie. being able to do more with the command line than 
currently.

Sasha