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Corel Linux Default Install


From: jnickson () TOGETHER NET (j nickson)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:49:45 -0400


Upon it's release (April) I ordered the minimum Corel Linux.

It's install is great for Windows users, and if they get theiur hands on it
they can get to Netscape on the web in 27 minutes.

If they accept the defaults, they also have a blank root password and
telnet server enabled.

I don't think I have to say much more for this list, but I'll add, and if
they have DSL, ...  It is DDOS tra la, tra la, time.

I don't have the bucks to try their other two CDs but I'd expect the same,
wouldn't you?

I e.mailed Corel and got no response, that was about a month ago.  It is
time to go public. . .

The thing is it is so totally stupid to have those defaults for an end user
system.  I don't understand how they could have been so far off the mark.

J
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