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I find it hard to believe that you read his original 'venting'. He's complaining about the need for root permissions to connect to a printer. It was about his d

I find it hard to believe that you read his original 'venting'. He's complaining about the need for root permissions to connect to a printer. It was about his daughter and the school network.

rbanffy 15y ago
No. I read Oracle's version in the Oracle article, which is the subject of this discussion after all. It's been many years since you couldn't connect to a wifi network or configure printers without anything beyond your own password, a properly configured sudo and a sensible set of permissions. In fact, I haven't entered a root password on any of my machines since 2008 or so. It's been a while since any of them even had a root password. What Oracle is bragging about is that some parts of Solaris 11 are saner than OpenSuSe's. Having deployed to SuSe machines a couple times in the past, that's one thing I don't find particularly hard to believe. I have no direct experience with Solaris since version 8 or so. I did enjoy using OpenSolaris and OpenIndiana for a while and would consider deploying them on my home server, as soon as I build it. I also find Linus' attitude towards fixing the problem rather than ditching the distro commendable. I wouldn't give most distros a second chance after giving me a tiny fraction of the problems he describes in his own rant. After the problems I experienced, I didn't even give OpenSuSe a first chance on my own machines. Life is too short to bitch on Bugzilla.