Everybody's favorite Ubuntu quirks

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:37, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> And Ubuntu. I had to really try to remain objective about this one,
> >> after all Mark Shuttleworth bought the best Debian Developers
> >> that money could buy when he woke up one morning and decided
> >> he'd drop a bit of cash on his own personal linux distribution.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to imply. Is it a dig or just
>
> I think your skin is a bit too thin.  You used to be touchy like this
> for gentoo a while back, and now your radar is going up everytime
> someone isn't singing the praises of Ubuntu.

Sounds a lot like layers 8 and 9 to me. (political/religious)

> >> The  sudo bit is really irritating to me, and one evening when /var/log
> >> got a bit full and I did a cat /dev/null > xferlog and it told me I
> >> didn't have permission that pretty much made me laugh. Not for me.
> >
> > I must be the only user on the planet who finds no problem with the
> > sudo setup on Ubuntu.

I'm rather concerned with the fact that this person must have a root login.  
Actually, the hacker side of me is rather in love with the fact...  But sudo 
su seems to do the trick for redirection stuff.  simply setting a root 
password also works fine.  But I appreciate the emphasis on not running as 
root.  SuSE's Red Bomb background is also endearing to my heart :)

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