On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > > Now to teach him how to update the thing. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > >
I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal with learning it. Let's see how that does for you. Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were: 1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was. 2) All the management was done using sudo. I couldn't get past the idea that if something went wrong that with no root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was absolutely sure at the time there had to be a way to set that myself, maybe as simple as sudo passwd - root or something like that, but I decided it just wasn't for me and tossed the machine in the garage rather than deal with it! :-) Cheers, Mark
