"For me, the whole Ubuntu philosophy gets in the way. No root? What's up with<br>that?.."<br><br>sudo passwd root<br><br>then you can type "su" and the root password and you're logged in as root.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:match@ece.utah.edu">match@ece.utah.edu</a></b> <<a href="mailto:match@ece.utah.edu">match@ece.utah.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 5 Nov 2007 at 13:06, Support [ Ian Ward ] wrote:<br><br>> <Flame suit on><br>> I'm thinking Ubuntu may be a better option as apt seems much smarter
<br>> than yum.<br>> Does Ubuntu handle major version upgrades better?<br>><br>For me, the whole Ubuntu philosopy gets in the way. No root? What's up with<br>that?... Randomly generated MySQL password? No thanks... SUDO every
<br>time I have to do something as superuser?... Everytime?... Too much bother,<br>and I don't need a Nanny.<br><br>I thought MythBuntu looked promising, but the install scripts are very... um...<br>restricting? As long as you want your system built their way, then maybe, but
<br>I couldn't figure out how to set up raid0 with xfs.<br><br>The writeup on the Ubuntu community wiki says that you can turn an Ubuntu<br>intallation into a MythBuntu system, but I couldn't get it work. Too many
<br>permission problems. I could not get into MySQL no matter what I tried. The<br>"randomly generated" password wouldn't let me in, and I couldn't change it<br>because... oh yeah, I couldn't get in!
<br><br>So It's back to Fedora 7 for me. At least I can find my way around that<br>distribution and hose it up as root it I want to.<br><br>Marvin<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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