Comments on: wheel group in linux http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2004/04/30/179 adventures into and out of extreme boredom. Sun, 02 May 2010 03:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Chiron613 http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2004/04/30/179/comment-page-1#comment-100538 Chiron613 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:48:09 +0000 http://extremeboredom.net/?postid=10#comment-100538 You can laugh all you want at Richard Stallman, but he's the reason why Linux is so popular. Without his GNU software, Linux would be a nice, boring kernel that did nothing. GNU software is what allows us to use gcc, tar, grep, find, and a whole host of other utilities. Stallman may be somewhat extreme in his views of "the masses". OK, everyone's entitled to their pet project or obsession ot whatever. It's exactly that obsession that motivated Richard to do what he's done. Without that, I suspect Linux would have remained a curiosity among computer science students, interesting but of no practical value to ordinary users. Give the man credit where it is due. Linus Torvalds was instrumental in creating Linux, to be sure. Without him, what we call "Linux" wouldn't exist, either. But Stallman was every bit as important as Torvalds in making Linux a useful, popular operating system (for some value of 'popular'). Show a little respect. You can laugh all you want at Richard Stallman, but he’s the reason why Linux is so popular. Without his GNU software, Linux would be a nice, boring kernel that did nothing. GNU software is what allows us to use gcc, tar, grep, find, and a whole host of other utilities.

Stallman may be somewhat extreme in his views of “the masses”. OK, everyone’s entitled to their pet project or obsession ot whatever. It’s exactly that obsession that motivated Richard to do what he’s done. Without that, I suspect Linux would have remained a curiosity among computer science students, interesting but of no practical value to ordinary users.

Give the man credit where it is due. Linus Torvalds was instrumental in creating Linux, to be sure. Without him, what we call “Linux” wouldn’t exist, either. But Stallman was every bit as important as Torvalds in making Linux a useful, popular operating system (for some value of ‘popular’).

Show a little respect.

]]> By: Nullhead http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2004/04/30/179/comment-page-1#comment-189 Nullhead Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:49:27 +0000 http://extremeboredom.net/?postid=10#comment-189 You don't need even PAM for su+wheel support. Use su from shadow suite instead of GNU coreutils and you get even two possibilities: 1) Use SU_WHEEL_ONLY in /etc/login.defs 2) Use /etc/suauth which allows detailed configuration This is how it's done in Slackware based systems. You don’t need even PAM for su+wheel support. Use su from shadow suite instead of GNU coreutils and you get even two possibilities:
1) Use SU_WHEEL_ONLY in /etc/login.defs
2) Use /etc/suauth which allows detailed configuration
This is how it’s done in Slackware based systems.

]]> By: John Lockard http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2004/04/30/179/comment-page-1#comment-149 John Lockard Wed, 06 Apr 2005 18:25:48 +0000 http://extremeboredom.net/?postid=10#comment-149 My feeling is that if you're using Stallman's logic this says that you don't trust your SysAdmins. If you don't trust your SysAdmins, fire the lot of them and hire respectable, trustable people. My feeling is that if you’re using Stallman’s logic this says that you don’t trust your SysAdmins. If you don’t trust your SysAdmins, fire the lot of them and hire respectable, trustable people.

]]> By: Darryl Millar http://eric.extremeboredom.net/2004/04/30/179/comment-page-1#comment-8 Darryl Millar Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://extremeboredom.net/?postid=10#comment-8 LOL Stallman does it again. LOL Stallman does it again.

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