On 01/27/2010 01:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

sudo -i is even easier.

        -Sean

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