At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:48 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at 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 at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/