Christopher Chan wrote:
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>>>
>>> Thats my thought as well. Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers.
>>> Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'? They
>>> seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now.
>>> Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though.
>>>
>> 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).
>>
> Bah, sudo -i for the equivalent of su -.
Or more straightforwardly, "sudo su -". Works on Macs too.
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