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On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:49:54 +0100 |
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Lorenzo Bandieri <lorenzo.bandieri@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend |
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> >> running Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It |
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> >> wasn't that it was bad or didn't work, but that the management of |
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> >> it seemed so different from any distro I'd run before that I |
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> >> didn't want to deal with learning it. Let's see how that does for |
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> >> you. |
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> >> |
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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 |
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> >> with no root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was |
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> >> absolutely sure at the time there had to be a way to set that |
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> >> myself, maybe as simple as sudo passwd - root or something like |
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> >> that, but I decided it just wasn't for me and tossed the machine |
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> >> in the garage rather than deal with it! :-) |
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> >> |
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> >> Cheers, |
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> >> Mark |
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> >> |
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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 |
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> > we have that in common. lol |
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> > The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. |
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> > A lot like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that |
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> > intfs thingy gets on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may |
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> > have found my next distro. I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give |
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> > the inity thingy a shot, maybe two. 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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Then you must be using a single-user machine. Like your own laptop or |
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desktop. |
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sudo is absolutely necessary on any multi-user machine unless you like |
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security holes. |
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Instead of bashing sudo, it's better to find out what problem it is |
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designed to solve, then determine if you have that problem. It does |
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have a point, and a very valuable one too, you just seem to not have |
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seen it yet. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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