Kubuntu, first impressions.

[Raphaël Pinson]

Hi Renaud,

> For instance, why mount partitions on /media/ instead of /mnt/ ?

This is the standard. The standard for Linux is called Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (FHS) and specifies that peripherals should be
mounted to /media. /mnt is to be used by the administrator to manually
mount an additional partition that was not planned in the fstab. It is
a mistake according to the standards to create several directories in
/mnt to mount all your partitions. You can read about Linux hierarchy
standards on this page:  http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ ,


> The root user has been done away with; in many cases (schools etc) you will
> still need a special admin account; so what is the point of making this
> different from root ?
>

The root account does exist on Ubuntu systems but no password is
assigned to it by default, because the system uses sudo instead of su
by default. As for the /mnt thingy, this is a different approach that
is partly shared with Debian (Debian proposes to use sudo at install).
MacOSX also uses sudo by default because it has a lot of advantages.
At work, we tend to use sudo more and more instead of the root account
on servers, because this allows to have a better control of the rights
of each user on the machine. You can read more about sudo in the
sudo_root manpages (`man sudo_root` in a console or `man:/sudo_root`in
Konqueror).


I hope we can have a constructive talk on standards.


Regards,


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