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In FreeBSD, you cannot log in as root even if you know the password. You have to be in the wheel group.
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Being new to the whole linux movement, I take the path with the least resistance, su, sudo or root login.
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su -c 'command options'
until I realize I need to execute multiple commands su or until I realize I just want to log in and do a whole session as root then I very neatly clear my console window with: exec reset |
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Sure, the Chromium browser may also be based on the BSD license, but the rest of the OS is GPL. |
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I couldn't really take you serious before this post, but now I know that I really shouldn't. |
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Only at the kernel level. Chrome OS and Android have the B$D license at the user level. If the kernel is B$D, that means that the whole OS can be forked into a proprietary version. In Chrome OS, only the browser can be forked into a proprietary version, and in Android, only Dalvik and above can be forked into a proprietary version.
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And what makes that for a difference? ChromeOS without Chrome. Android without it's userland? Wouldn't that be useless?
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The Apache license is somewhat similar to the BSD license.
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First of all, even with something as permissive as the B$D license, you can't just take something that is open source and make the whole thing proprietary. You would have to open up some code, even if it may be nothing at all. And Google is usually generous enough to open up a lot of code (which they do; Chromium is no more different from Chrome than CentOS [or more properly Fedora] is from RHEL as I have said), so that argument is moot. And Chrome OS apps are mostly Web apps, so they can run from any browser and therefore any OS.
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When I wish to perform some task sudo works just fine, besides I feel more secure in NOT going into root (I forget to remove privileges LOL)
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I don't think much about licenses when using operating systems because I don't understand the legal mumble jumbo of them.
To me an OS is an OS regardless of license type. |
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