Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows

[michael wilson]

ubuntu asks for my user password, not an admin password and give no warnings
that I might be doing dangerous things.  Windows has a protection in it that
when you even try to delete notepad, you cannot. because it is a protected
windows file.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Davide Corio <davide.corio at domsense.com>
wrote:

> Il giorno mar, 29/04/2008 alle 11.09 -0700, michael wilson ha scritto:
> > One thing needs to be fixed before Ubuntu takes on windows.  The
> > ability to totally nuke the boot process through the package manager
> > needs to be removed.  There is NO WAY I can make windows un-bootable
> > through add/remove programs.   Yet, I can remove a few packages with
> > no warning and make ubuntu not boot and unable to run any programs
> > requiring a complete clean reinstall.
>
> Actually, you CANNOT make ubuntu unbootable untill you don't have the
> root password.
> If a user deletes an important package, i suppose it knows what it is
> going to do.
>
> In windows, you can make the system unbootable just deleting some files.
>
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