On 01/27/2010 01:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/27/2010 10:04 AM, John Hudak wrote: >> >> Pet peve: One issue that I have found quite annoying is that the >> Debian/Ubuntu branches have their own structure of where to put >> applications and utilities in the file structure. I came from a Bell >> Labs/ATT/BDS UNIX background and have used Slackware extensively in the >> past. For me, that was the 'standard' and routing around the guts of >> Debian and finding out (and still learning) were system files, >> application files etc are located has been a little frustrating. > > Most linux distros make some attempt to follow the LSB/FHS standards > (basically some committee shuffling things around without quite enough > thought to make 3rd party packages portable). > >> So was >> the concept of sudo in Ubuntu (Why is there no easily identifiable root >> state (e.g. root terminal)...At least Debian will launch a root terminal >> ....So, I guess it just depends what one is accustom to...... > > You can 'sudo su -' to get a root terminal if you want. That even works > on a Mac, which they seem to want to emulate.
sudo -i is even easier.
-Sean
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