Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
[snip]

A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red if you
logged in as root.

As did Mandrake, when I left it for Debian. I always thought it was
a good idea.

Seems like it would be better to just disallow root logins to X. And to
use PGP MIME instead of long-ago deprecated inline PGP.

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