On 1/27/2010 10:04 AM, John Hudak wrote:
>
> Pet peve: One issue that I have found quite annoying is that the
> Debian/Ubuntu branches have their own structure of where to put
> applications and utilities in the file structure.  I came from a Bell
> Labs/ATT/BDS UNIX background and have used Slackware extensively in the
> past.  For me, that was the 'standard' and routing around the guts of
> Debian and finding out (and still learning) were system files,
> application files etc are located has been a little frustrating.

Most linux distros make some attempt to follow the LSB/FHS standards
(basically some committee shuffling things around without quite enough
thought to make 3rd party packages portable).

> So was
> the concept of sudo in Ubuntu (Why is there no easily identifiable root
> state (e.g. root terminal)...At least Debian will launch a root terminal
> ....So, I guess it just depends what one is accustom to......

You can 'sudo su -' to get a root terminal if you want.  That even works
on a Mac, which they seem to want to emulate.

--
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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