Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?
Arch Willingham wrote:
For the heck of it, this weekend, I installed their current beta on
the laptop I was using for FC9. I don't see what the big deal is. It was nice to have
it ask to install stuff (like flash) when it encounterd the need but I had the same issues
with wireless that I have had with FC8/FC9. I had to end up using ndiswrapper to get it to
work (Linksys WPC54GS). The only things I noted of real interest were: Firefox starts much
faster than in either FC8 or FC9 and the update thingy hauls booty compared to YUM. Most
annoying things were the weird colors and this stupid jungle sound that goes off any time
you log in. Also, the whole "You can't get to root" thing is weird.
It's a 'you don't need a separate root password' and 'you
shouldn't log
in as root' thing. If you want to be root, just 'sudo su -' and use
your own password when prompted.
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Les Mikesell
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