Ubuntu newbe password question ?

dave ubuntu at pusspaws.net
Sat Sep 24 21:54:32 UTC 2005


On Saturday 24 September 2005 22:13, Vram wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:53 +0100, dave wrote:
> > 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
>
> Gentoo is good.. It just requires a different mind set..
>
> Peace.
>

Gentoo is excellent, It has been my distro for 2+ years on both my home 
machines. But somehow ubuntu kde seems more responsive. It must be a 
configuration or pre-link difference (Probarbly due to me ;) 

As you say it just requires a different mindset :)

Dave




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