Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:
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
<SNIP>
I don't use sudo on my rig so it sort of annoys me. ;-) I guess we have
that in common. lol
The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. A lot
like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that intfs thingy gets
on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may have found my next distro.
I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give the inity thingy a shot, maybe two.
After that, kill shot.
Dale
I hate sudo, I never got the point in using it - and actually it is
one of the thing that makes Ubuntu annoying to me. I'm not the only
one, then! :D
Howerer, I think that Ubuntu is one of the "best" distro for beginners
(especially those coming from windows/os x), so it should work well
for your brother. Basically, it is absolutely possible to run and
update the distro without ever touching the terminal... Me, I find it
too "constraining".
In regard to Sabayon, last time I tried it, I had the impression it
was buggy, but it was three years ago... Actually, I'd like to give it
a try one of these days :)
Best regards,
Lorenzo
Us Gentooers are to much alike. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
