[mythtv-users] Distros - Was: SD only Frontend video card advice

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Thu Apr 19 15:33:56 UTC 2007


David Campbell wrote:

>> (I tried out Kbuntu and was not particularly impressed. Any distro that 
>> starts out by telling me that I am too stupid to be root has lost me, 
>> but the distro seems to be popular and that's the good thing about Linux 
>> - many choices. Personally if I want to run Debian I'll run Debian, not 
>> a stripped-down version with GUIs for everything that says I "don't 
>> need" to be root.)
> 
> I never understood why people got more upset with 'sudo bash' over 'su -'
> 
> I like Kubuntu as a desktop and a myth box - professionally I remaining 
> using various flavours of Redhat.  In two years time I'd imagine both of 
>   these might change.
>

To a large extent it's just what you're used to. I have ssh sessions to 
several machines logged in as root, for days or weeks on end, and it's 
just more typing to have to type "sudo" and perhaps having to do it 
again and again as the sudo times out.

"Conventional Wisdom" says I am operating in a "dangerous" way, but it 
hasn't caused me any problems in over 15 years, though I suppose I am 
tempting fate by saying that.

Any hardware ever made will fail eventually, and the step you take to 
protect against that also protect you from your own mistakes.

(K)Ubuntu does seem to be very popular, especially with new Linux users, 
and I do in fact suggest it to folks trying to get away from Windows.

Now if they could just solve the K/U confusion. A recent survey showed 
Ubuntu as the most popular distro but KDE as the most popular desktop 
for it, which shows a lot of confusion on that issue.

Although my Myth box is FC that distro  lost me for general purposes 
when they started telling me I "didn't need" the full kernel sources, 
and made me jump through hoops to get the real ones.

For all-around purposed I'm using Gentoo, and my mail and file servers 
run Debian (old machines and the Gentoo compile time is just too long).

But for day to day stuff it's hard to beat this Mac :-)


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