Just a word on Pardus 2008 (Beta 1)
I once liked Pardus. Quite a lot. I even has a section for it in my old blog.
When I dropped it, it was because of what I considered to be a tremendously ill-educating behavior:
* If the first-created user was granted administrative rights, he was able to perform certain administrative tasks, including GUIpackage management, without ever being asked for a password!
* Otherwise, the first-created user was unable to perform some administrative tasks: instead of being asked for an administrative (root's) password, he was simply denied to perform those tasks!
A terribly wrong approach, but the developers disagreed with me. Becoming "half-root" as a design option is halfway to the situation of using Windows as an Administrator.
OK, here's the status of the user rights model, as far as I could see it from a VirtualBox installation:
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