On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" <baker.stephen.e@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: >>> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate >>> greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user >>> privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest >>> packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. >>> Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released >>> the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in >>> February. >>> [snip] >> >> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim >> >> Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many >> issues with it... > > I had lots of issues when I used slim, but replaced it easily lxdm. slim isn't a default and there are lots of choices available (including other lightweight ones) so I don't see how adding lightdm and dropping slim are connected. >> >> Allan > > I use slim on two systems without issue... Other than our package is out of date
