INPROCESS Re: root password...[ubuntu 5.10 installation issues]

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Dec 12, Sam Tygier did say:

> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > Perhaps, but I don't agree with it. Or is it that it doesn't agree with
> > me. In any case, as much as I'd like to like ubuntu, if it insists on
> > shoving sudo up my kudzu, I'll wind up dumping it.
> 
> ok. linux is about choice as they say.
> 
> you might find debian slightly better suited to you than ubuntu. but you can
> mould ubuntu a fair amount. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth has a
> good explanation of the differences between the distros.

Yeah well maybe debian has gotten easier to initially set up since I read
about it some time ago. I'd heard that it had a GREAT package management
system, but that the learning curve to get it initially off the ground
was rather steep... (didn't have time then, don't have time now) Perhaps
I'd heard wrong?

What I'd heard about ubuntu on the other hand, was that it was VERY easy
to install, and that it was getting more "love" than redhat's fedora
project... Then when I learned it was based on debian, I figured it was
the best of both worlds. And once I found out that I could most easily
replace gnome with KDE with the kubuntu version I thought about the
advice someone gave me here about NON-expert admins being better off
with the installers "expert" mode...

Did that, applied a few of the changes that fighting with the gnome
version taught me I wanted to do, And now I'm mostly down to trying to
find the packages for a few console apps that I want to preconfigure in
/etc/skel before I create the user account(s) I'll actually use... (most
notably mc, but that's a different thread...)
 
> "Why are you funding Ubuntu, instead of giving the money to Debian?
> <snip>
> First, a lot of the things I want to do involve reducing the scope of the
> distro. That makes it MORE useful for one set of people, but quite clearly
> LESS useful for others. For example, we currently officially support only 3
> architectures in Ubuntu. That's GREAT for people running those architectures,
> but clearly not so useful for people running on something else."
> 
> which i think sums up the aims of ubuntu quite well.

Well so far the only decision that I'm aware of the ubuntu team having
made (that I'm totally incompatible with, is the sudo thing... And that
can be gotten around so...) Otherwise, I'm impressed with how well it's
stuff seams to work. (pretty much out of the box) Once I get a few more
things set up MY way, I think I'm going to _LIKE_ it here... 

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