RE: [SLUG] WINE application installation questions

From: Logan Tygart (thelogan@allyourbase-arebelongto.us)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2006 - 21:08:11 EST


On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 19:29 -0500, Jonathon Conte wrote:
> >From: "Keith Lelacheur" <themercuryman@gmail.com>
<snip>
> I would *strongly* suggest not running Wine as root. Any Windows or Wine
> bugs could screw up the entire system.

Heh, a SLUG member wrote an amusing article about the unlikelihood of
this happening:

http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222

The Logan

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