Jim Cheetham wrote:
lol. sudo su is almost pointless ... sudo -s gives you a root shell :-)
Ok, I do not have much experience with sudo and typing 'u' is for me
easier than '-'.
sudo has some major benefits in larger shared-admin systems, but from
Ubuntu's point of view, the prime
Craig FALCONER wrote:
The main problem will be the trident cyberblade. It's a totally bollocks
video chipset... I had a 4 Mb one in a toshiba 4030.
Try an older version of X...
How would you do that under (K)Ubuntu?
These links may help
Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Nick Rout wrote:
with. ... For some reason I also thought that there is no root-user
on ubuntu. On my system su and logging in over ssh with username root
all work well.
Of course it has a root user, but the root password is locked unless you
set it (sudo passwd
Greetings,
I got an old Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 to configure and play around
with. Firstly I tried to get gentoo working with distcc but after some
time I gave up because I couldn't compile Xorg and even with distcc it
was too slow. Then I tried Ubuntu which worked fine. The installation
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:57 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Greetings,
I got an old Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 to configure and play around
with. ... For some reason I also thought that there
is no root-user on ubuntu. On my system su and logging in over ssh with
username root all work
sudo is a good habit to get into, I use it as a result of a play with
ubuntu.
I'm afraid I don't see the point. When I want to so something as root,
then it's typically more than one command. Ergo, I open a root shell, do
what I need to, exit. Of course running yast is easiest straight out of
Thanks for the help.
Nick Rout wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 08:57 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
Sorry, I wrote aptitude while I meant synaptic.
Greetings,
I got an old Toshiba Satellite 1800-100 to configure and play around
with. ... For some reason I also thought that there
is no
used to use twm with nothing particularly flash or heavy on the old
machine, and it was fine most of the time.
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From: Robert Himmelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 3 August 2005 6:58 p.m.
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Subject: Toshiba 1800-100
