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>> I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running |
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>> Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it |
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>> was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so |
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>> different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal |
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>> with learning it. Let's see how that does for you. |
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>> Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was |
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>> running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were: |
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>> 1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was. |
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>> 2) All the management was done using sudo. |
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>> I couldn't get past the idea that if something went wrong that with no |
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>> root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was absolutely sure at |
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>> the time there had to be a way to set that myself, maybe as simple as |
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>> sudo passwd - root or something like that, but I decided it just |
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>> wasn't for me and tossed the machine in the garage rather than deal |
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>> with it! :-) |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Mark |
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<SNIP> |
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> I don't use sudo on my rig so it sort of annoys me. ;-) I guess we have |
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> that in common. lol |
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> The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. A lot |
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> like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that intfs thingy gets |
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> on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may have found my next distro. |
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> I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give the inity thingy a shot, maybe two. |
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> After that, kill shot. |
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> Dale |
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I hate sudo, I never got the point in using it - and actually it is |
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one of the thing that makes Ubuntu annoying to me. I'm not the only |
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one, then! :D |
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Howerer, I think that Ubuntu is one of the "best" distro for beginners |
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(especially those coming from windows/os x), so it should work well |
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for your brother. Basically, it is absolutely possible to run and |
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update the distro without ever touching the terminal... Me, I find it |
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too "constraining". |
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In regard to Sabayon, last time I tried it, I had the impression it |
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was buggy, but it was three years ago... Actually, I'd like to give it |
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a try one of these days :) |
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Best regards, |
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Lorenzo |
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