Ubuntu newbe password question ?
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Sat Sep 24 21:13:50 UTC 2005
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.
Vram
>
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