Hugh Dixon wrote:
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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.
For a strong community pclinuxos takes my money right now.
Seems to be on the "up" as a distro, and for new Linux users lots to
recommend.
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.
After mandriva I found the root thing odd, and not desirable ( but
relative newbie to Linux).
I heard - although never got round to trying it, that the initial root
password is the same as for the first user account created.
Yes that was my instructions and experience.
Let us know what you find, as I may be going to back to KU!
Hugh
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