Sorin Srbu wrote:
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.
Hi
The reason for Ubuntu in the laptop is simply because CentOS didn't work very well. I followed the wiki about XPS M1530[1] and everything almost work. At the office one of the developers uses a Dell Precision laptop with RHEL 5.3 (it came from Dell with RHEL) and works really fine. So, I image that some laptops are more CentOS/RHEL-friendly than others.
Now I'm used to use sudo. It is a great tool. I use it everywhere. And everything I do appears in the logwatch.
Regards
mg.
At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:48 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Sorin Srbu wrote:
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.
Hi
The reason for Ubuntu in the laptop is simply because CentOS didn't work very well. I followed the wiki about XPS M1530[1] and everything almost work. At the office one of the developers uses a Dell Precision laptop with RHEL 5.3 (it came from Dell with RHEL) and works really fine. So, I image that some laptops are more CentOS/RHEL-friendly than others.
Probably older ones or ones with less 'bleeding edge' hardware.
Now I'm used to use sudo. It is a great tool. I use it everywhere. And everything I do appears in the logwatch.
Regards
mg.
[1] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Dell/XPS_M1530 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Marcelo M. Garcia
The reason for Ubuntu in the laptop is simply because CentOS didn't work very well. I followed the wiki about XPS M1530[1] and everything almost work. At the office one of the developers uses a Dell Precision laptop with RHEL 5.3 (it came from Dell with RHEL) and works really fine. So, I image that some laptops are more CentOS/RHEL-friendly than others.
I'm lucky that my Dell Latitude D400 works 100% with CentOS -- I imagine being "behind the curve" in hardware is a definite advantage here.
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