Ubuntu newbe password question ?

[dave]

On Saturday 24 September 2005 21:47, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On za, 2005-09-24 at 21:42 +0100, dave wrote:
> > Is there an alternative to gnome-terminal I could use ?
>
> On kubuntu it's konsole.
>
> But: running gnome-terminal, konsole or any other gui program as root
> (and specifically with sudo) is a bad idea, just use sudo -i.
>
> The 'root terminal' entry has been thrown out of the menu in breezy
> especially because of this.

Thank you for your explanation and patience. I am proding and pokeing around 
at the moment, its a great distro.

Thinking of ditching Gentoo ... all that compiling ... + somehow ubuntu seems 
quicker (No I cant figure it either)

Dave