> -----Original Message----- > From: Robin Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 10:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [newbie] News: Mandrake Linux Founder Fired > > 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.
I heard - although never got round to trying it, that the initial root password is the same as for the first user account created. Let us know what you find, as I may be going to back to KU! Hugh > > 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 > ____________________________________________________ > ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
