On 17/03/06, Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/03/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Me I'm not interested in financially supporting just another Distro > > > vendor along the lines of RH and Novell. > > > > I think I am going to testdrive Ubuntu and OpenSuse on a spare disk... > > Just downloaded Kubuntu, but that was merely a fortuitous coincidence: > I wanted to see what a Debian-style distro was like. (K)ubuntu > certainly looks like it has a strong community and clear moral > principles, though.
Update - it installed easily, though without the graphic pizzaz we're used to these days (it reminded me of the good old days of RedHat 5.*). I still can't get the hang of this weird attitude to root, though. Unless I dozed off, there was no way to set a root password during install, but if you try to do something requiring root permissions (which is most of what you'll be doing immediately after install) it asks for a password. I'll give it some more time, but my first impression is that this is one kooky distro. BTW, you can keep your old /home partition intact when you install, but then it won't recognise it, and woe betide you if your trying to log on with your old user name! Sir Robin ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
