>> I'll be interested in hearing how that goes. I had one weekend running >> Ubuntu and ended up running away as fast as I could. It wasn't that it >> was bad or didn't work, but that the management of it seemed so >> different from any distro I'd run before that I didn't want to deal >> with learning it. Let's see how that does for you. >> >> Again, remembering I didn't really give it much of a chance - I was >> running on a Power PC Mac Mini - two things that drove me mad were: >> >> 1) The basic install didn't tell me what the root password was. >> >> 2) All the management was done using sudo. >> >> I couldn't get past the idea that if something went wrong that with no >> root password what was I supposed to do? Now, I was absolutely sure at >> the time there had to be a way to set that myself, maybe as simple as >> sudo passwd - root or something like that, but I decided it just >> wasn't for me and tossed the machine in the garage rather than deal >> with it! :-) >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> <SNIP> > > I don't use sudo on my rig so it sort of annoys me. ;-) I guess we have > that in common. lol > > The update tool is GUI. That's why I think he can do that himself. A lot > like winders in a way. Heck, if this works well and that intfs thingy gets > on my nerves, may use it myself. :-( I may have found my next distro. > I'm not leaving yet. I'm going to give the inity thingy a shot, maybe two. > After that, kill shot. > > Dale >
I hate sudo, I never got the point in using it - and actually it is one of the thing that makes Ubuntu annoying to me. I'm not the only one, then! :D Howerer, I think that Ubuntu is one of the "best" distro for beginners (especially those coming from windows/os x), so it should work well for your brother. Basically, it is absolutely possible to run and update the distro without ever touching the terminal... Me, I find it too "constraining". In regard to Sabayon, last time I tried it, I had the impression it was buggy, but it was three years ago... Actually, I'd like to give it a try one of these days :) Best regards, Lorenzo
