Back in the early days of Linux, things were exponentially more complicated. The distributions were far less mature and required a particular system account to get things done. That account was root - ...

One of my friend's says that it is a security hazard if I log in as root every time I log into my desktop PC. I usually just log in as root and do my usual thing (surfing the web, checking email, etc) ...

The most recent examples are Steam (one of the games does not run unless Steam is ran as administrator) andirefox beta (the automatic updates cannot be installed unless this is done either). It also ...