At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:41:48 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorin Srbu wrote:
> >>> HTH.
> >> Hi Sorin
> >>
> >> You can "sudo bash" and you will have a root terminal. In it, you can
> >> set the root password for root.
> >
> > Yupp, as I said, at the time I was testing Ubuntu, I was rather green and
> > didn't know about those little tricks. Now is a another matter, but I still
> > prefer CentOS. Besides, opening a terminal and typing in "su -" is way
> > faster. Saves keystrokes.
> Hi
>
> The reason for Ubuntu in the laptop is simply because CentOS didn't work
> very well. I followed the wiki about XPS M1530[1] and everything
> almost work. At the office one of the developers uses a Dell Precision
> laptop with RHEL 5.3 (it came from Dell with RHEL) and works really
> fine. So, I image that some laptops are more CentOS/RHEL-friendly than
> others.
Probably older ones or ones with less 'bleeding edge' hardware.
>
> Now I'm used to use sudo. It is a great tool. I use it everywhere. And
> everything I do appears in the logwatch.
>
> Regards
>
> mg.
>
> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Dell/XPS_M1530
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