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A Review of Ubuntu Warty Release

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the joe-don-danny-donny-jordan dept.

JL writes "Recent news about Ubuntu had peaked my interest. Debian based, good development team, the Ubuntu philosophy and an active community. I lurked about on Freenode's #ubuntu channel and got a feel for the community. I found them to be helpful and a valuable asset to Ubuntu. I decided to give it a go on my laptop. "

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  1. sudo .vs. root by Macka · · Score: 4, Interesting


    Something that caught my attention in the review was the statement that root is disabled by default, with all management tasks being performed by sudo, and graphical tools that make use of it. Sounds like they've taken a leaf out of Apple's books.

    Is this the first Linux distro to do this?

    My personal experience of using Mac OS X now for the last 2+ years is that this works really well. If I really need to do anything that needs the root UID for any length of time, then "sudo -s" sorts me out and off I go. I've never needed to enable the root account once.

    So is an active root account a thing of the past? I'm curious to know what you (the reader) think about that.