Why use a virtual machine? **RESOLVED**

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 30 November 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Screw 'em and the camel that rode in on them, I tried Ubuntu-8.04 LTS, got
> tired of fighting with sudo every 30 seconds to get the stuff I wanted (KDE
> & friends) installed and put an F9 respin on it, much friendlier.  Whatever
> became of the sudo that was good for 10 minutes anyway?

You can make it good forever by adding the line:

Defaults        timestamp_timeout=-1

to  /etc/sudoers

(That's a   -1)