>-----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... -- /Sorin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090930/8802090d/attachment-0005.bin>