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To: B Knotts
Vista does essentially the same thing, prompting you to enter an administrative username/password almost constantly...

True to a point. But having to enter username/password to install applications and such is nowhere as involved as having to know/understand Sudo commands. It's like having to run a DOS window in Windows in order to do things. Ridiculous, IMO.

19 posted on 07/23/2008 6:56:13 AM PDT by bcsco (To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
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To: bcsco

I’m trying to imagine in what context you would be having to use sudo as an ordinary desktop user, and cannot, so I don’t really know what you mean.

sudo is a command that lets you run another command as root.

Incidentally, in Exchange 2007, you do have to use a command shell for certain things.


21 posted on 07/23/2008 7:00:14 AM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: bcsco

bcsco, I had the same difficulties with Ubuntu. I stumbled upon PCLinuxOS 2007. It’s great. I’ve never had to enter any coding to get anything to run.

2007 is getting a bit long in the tooth, as there’s a newer kernel out and lots of new updates, but there’s MiniMe 2008, which is a stripped down version. Load only what you want from the repositories. There’s TinyMe, Sam Linux, etc. all based on PCLinuxOS. There’s supposed to be a newer version of 2007 coming out sometime this year.

Your problems with Ubuntu mirrored my own. I deleted it and went back to Windows for a good while. PCLinuxOS is good enough to get me to wipe Windows. Everything works. If I didn’t use Microsoft Flight sim, I’d not need any windows at all.


138 posted on 07/24/2008 3:34:59 PM PDT by Big Giant Head (I should change my tagline to "Big Giant penguin on my Head")
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