[Wolves] Another reason why Linux struggles to become mainstream......?

[Simon Morris]

On 26/11/05, Tim Childe <tim.childe.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> So after a while not using linux, I decide tonight I can risk problems (I
> only want to surf) so I'll give it a go and see what happens
>
>  I boot up my works PC from the Ubuntu Live CD (Hoary Hedghog) and all is
> well.....
>
>
>  I'm now in the same position as someone trying linux for the first time
> having been recommended to try it.
>
>  Everything is fine until I go to make a cup of coffee.  When I return the
> screen saver has come on and it's locked with a password !!!!!!!

Nice!!! That must be a bug - to be prompted for a password that you haven't set.

A misconfiguration bug rather than a bug in the code though

[snip]

>
>  Sorry to rant as my first post for months - but it just annoyed me so much
> !

Be the one to make a difference and file a bug report then :)


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