[Novalug] Ubuntu vs Fedora

[Gregory Bledsoe]

sudo su - root?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kevin Cole <dc.loco at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:11, Beartooth <beartooth at beartooth.info> wrote:
>
>>        Main difference (i.e, main for me): Fedora lets you be root at
>> will, and remain root. And so with other things: Ubuntu will try to protect
>> you from yourself.
>>
>
> Replying with the speed of someone else on this list, who will remain
> nameless... ;-)
>
> Although not built-in, you can enable a root account, which will get you to
> the place you want to be, though I find "sudo -i" which others have
> mentioned to be not all that cumbersome. (It's like Python: The first week I
> used it I cursed the "anal indentiveness" (copyleft me, 2009) of it, but
> quickly became accustomed to it, and find it to be a great language now.)
>
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Greg

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