[CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Sep 30 07:42:06 UTC 2009


Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>>     
> Behalf
>   
>> Of Marcelo M. Garcia
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:36 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user
>>
>>     
>>> Not using, but I've tried it in a LAMP-configuration couple of years ago.
>>> Stability seems ok, but personally I don't like the sudo this and sudo
>>>       
> that
>   
>>> and sudo everywhere. Besides, it felt somehow clunky. CentOS seemed slim,
>>> slick and fast compared at the time, so CentOS is what I got stuck with
>>>       
> (in
>   
>>> an endearing sense of course).
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>       
>> Hi Sorin
>>
>> You can "sudo bash" and you will have a root terminal. In it, you can
>> set the root password for root.
>>     
>
> Yupp, as I said, at the time I was testing Ubuntu, I was rather green and
> didn't know about those little tricks. Now is a another matter, but I still
> prefer CentOS. Besides, opening a terminal and typing in "su -" is way
> faster. Saves keystrokes. 
> 	And I can't believe I just write that...! I sound like a linux
> die-hard...
>   
Just try Solaris or FreeBSD then. That should make you a Linux die-hard. :-D



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