On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 19:05, der.hans wrote:
> Am 08. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Blake Barnett so:
> 
> > That's your own warped opinion Hans, and it's in the minority when it
> > comes to distribution vendors and standard practices.  ;)  And that's my
> 
> Well, then I guess RedHat does own the world of *NIX. Mandrake came from
> them and does that. I think Caldera as well. I don't believe SuSE does that.
> I'm certain none of the *BSDs do it. I haven't experienced it on any
> commercial *NIXen ( not even Irix, which is the macntoy of *NIX ). Maybe
> we were always smart and turned that crap off ;-).
> 
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It's not such a bad thing...by the time you learn how to turn it off,
you are probably ready to practice unprotected bash.

I think you are failing to look at it from a newbie perspective...and
these distro's (Suse, Mandrake, RH get an inordinate share of the
newbies).

Craig