On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 22:50 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 06:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > >> > Haha :) No, it's just that, as far as I can see, the impact on newbies > >> > is that we tell them to reboot instead of doing ctrl-alt-backspace. > >> You are presuming a newbie on a single seat/single user system. > >> > >> > Total cost: about twenty seconds (time to reboot vs. time to restart X). > >> In a corporite environment, BIOS passwords or similar will prevent them > >> from rebooting. A service tech/sys-admin will have to come by. > > > > In a corporate environment the network will be managed by a sysadmin who > > will easily be able to change the default. > > I like your logic. It's easy to change defaults, so therefore it > makes sense to have bad defaults. You're putting words in my mouth. I have no particular opinion either way. All I've ever said is that it isn't a big deal. Put it this way - the time lost by the possible drawbacks of *either* approach is extremely unlikely *ever* to add up to the amount of time and energy smart people have wasted in the seventeen thousand threads about this. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
