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Re: SEUL: hardware detection

To: Rick Jones <rickya@siservices.net>
Subject: Re: SEUL: hardware detection
From: George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:32:42 -0800 (PST)
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> I think the idea is sound.  I also think there needs to be a little user
> education on the subject *before* it's done.  Say a small readme coming
> up with a yes/no at the bottom.  Then it's up to joe user to agree to
> let Linux dip into the registry.  And he will be more at ease having
> been assured that it is a read-only process.  No different than standing
> on the other side of a room reading a poster.  No contact with the
> contents.

People might feel safer if we make a COPY of the file and operate on the
copy instead of operating on the original.



George Bonser 
If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig)
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Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system.

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