SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Thu Jan 17 07:38:21 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 08:26 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
> > Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > 
> >> And I bet that more will choose ubuntu as a "friendlier" desktop if
> >> fedora forces people to use SELinux.
> > 
> > Except noone is talking about forcing anyone to use selinux, just about 
> > not 'suggesting' that they don't use it... which is exactly what turning 
> > it off at install would be doing.
> > 
> 
> Sorry but you are forcing it if is enabled by default on install.
> How much users (not counting devels, admins and testers) of fedora know 
> about SELinux and what it is? And what do people do when they install 
> something - they probably leave all settings on default in hope that 
> they don't "break" something with their wrong choices.

I would like to propose that the CD Desktop spin also always run as
root.
Users do not know how to correctly use file  permissions (or even know
what they are) and they often are annoyed that they cannot simply remove
useless directories like /usr that serve no apparent purpose but occupy
a lot of space.

Ah, also, can we run Fedora on a FAT file system by default, it's a much
easier file system to deal with and works on Cameras too and it is not
case sensitive, which is really helpful, case sensitivity is sooo
annoying ...

And also those annoying pop-ups asking for the root of a password when
you want to change some configuration? What in the earth is the root of
a password? I'd say login as root with no password is the best for
usability,

please consider it!

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