Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

[David Fox]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 6:25 PM, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:

> We had  lengthy - and repeated - discussions early on about sudo
> vs a root account.  The choice of sudo always seemed odd to me.

It sort of makes sense. But it feels different after using Debian and
other traditional Linux machines for years. Still, one of the earlier
versions of mandrake that I tried (7.2 I think) had this bizarre idea
about autologging users on without passwords.
>
> Later versions have introduced UUID instead of /dev/hdx for
> reasons which are  obscure.  In Hardy, fstab exists but editing

UUID sort of makes sense, and there've been threads on it in
debian-users for sometime now toutiing it as the cureall for those
times when a script (or you) expect to see a hotplug or removable
device (usb stick) be in the same place each time it's mounted. The
other way to do it is by using disk labels.

> my change and refused to recognise anything other than its own
> setup.

I had a preexisting /home and didn't have a problem making it go in
although it didn't work the first time. I just wanted to get something
installed on my new 64 bit box. Had I done a little bit more planning
I would have got lvm setup or at least a separated out /var. I did
partition for one in advance and I'm sure I told the installer to use
that partition.

> Has everyone noticed that nearly all the apps listed in (eg)
> Synaptic are 'ubuntuised' and wondered why? All in all there
> seems to me to be too much fiddling going on.

Not sure about what you mean. Ubuntuized in what way? Other than the
packages having -ubuntu something in the package string?

> I used to use FreeBSD so maybe a switch to Gentoo would be
> sensible.

Or maybe debian?