Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote:
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Now to teach him how to update the thing.
Dale
:-) :-)
I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running
Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it
was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so
different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal
with learning it. Let's see how that does for you.
Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was
running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were:
1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was.
2) All the management was done using sudo.
I couldn't get past the idea that if something went wrong that with no
root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was absolutely sure at
the time there had to be a way to set that myself, maybe as simple as
sudo passwd - root or something like that, but I decided it just
wasn't for me and tossed the machine in the garage rather than deal
with it! :-)
Cheers,
Mark
I have noticed the same points you found. I set up the user "cutie"
during the install. I logged in as cutie then did sudo su -. That got
me to root user. Yeppie ! Then I did passwd and typed in a root
password. After that, I could login as root. I don't like not having
the root password set.
I don't use sudo on my rig so it sort of annoys me. ;-) I guess we
have that in common. lol
The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. A
lot like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that intfs
thingy gets on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may have found my
next distro. I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give the inity thingy a
shot, maybe two. After that, kill shot.
Dale
:-) :-)
