On Sunday 02 August 2009 08:32:23 am Jeffrey Silverman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:26 AM, John Beardmore <John at t4sltd.co.uk> wrote: > > Jeffrey Silverman wrote: > > <snip!> > > > > :) The messing about required to get a root login is > > : frustration enough > > > > for anybody who grew up with debian ! > > "Messing about"? It is REALLY REALLY simple, maybe even simpler > than Debian, to get a root login, if one really wants. I'm not > talking "root login at GDM" though. If that's what you want, then > stick with Debian. IMO, the whole root login thing is an area > where Ubuntu made some good choices. > > > One of the recent Ubuntus seemed to screw up installation of > > the network if you wanted fixed IP addresses. > > > > There are ways around these things, but maybe better to be less > > 'friendly' in the first place, hence my interest in mint if > > it's better tested. (8.04 or 8.10 ?) > > I doubt Mint would fix that sort of problem. In Mint, if > something fundamental is broken in Ubuntu, it seems to stay > broken in Mint. > > Also, Ubuntu 9.04 is significantly better than either 2008 > release.
The first thing I do on any Debian derivative is to change the password on root. Then I can go to work. I am not stupid and I have been working with computers since 1968. I don't need some big brother hiding things from me. YMMV of course. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
