On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:24:47AM +0000, Chris Rowson wrote: > > Not to mention selling a machine with a default user name and password > > already set up. That blows any idea that Ubuntu is secure right out of > > the water! > > > > Regards, > > Tony. > > Why on earth wouldn't the silly sods have run the install mode for OEMs > option? >
I know the OEM option works well in recent releases, but given they installed Dapper, is it as reliable under that version. I don't know, I've never used it. Perhaps they have a sensible reason for doing it this way. Perhaps... they don't actually give a monkeys what is installed, they just chose a Linux distro so they could omit windows and thus get an attractive price point. > To be honest the whole affair sounds shocking. Is this a fluke/one off > or are all of these esys PCs this badly configured? > Is it really that bad? Sounds like a typical out of the box install really. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
