4 Nov
1999
4 Nov
'99
4:46 p.m.
better about security right about now... ;-) [[ Of
course, with OS-9 you
don't log in if you're at the console. It's assumed that since you knew how
to boot the box, you were automatically the superuser. I once tried (and
OK, here is a bit of off-topic superuser trivia that most people won't
know. The first three releases of Linux automatically booted into root.
There was no login, although it was possible, at least under 0.12 to add
one.
Also these first three releases were 0.10, 0.11, and 0.12. The fourth was
0.95 which resulted in some VERY wierd version numbers after it became
apparent that kernel wasn't as close to 1.0 as Linus thought.
Zane
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