Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch

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2009/9/11 Hiisi <very-cool@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> I wouldn't be so sure. They're about half of year back. And they use
> deb-packages - there's no yum. Recently I installed Ubuntu 9.04
> (Jaunty) on my girlfriend' laptop. I never entered root pass during
> installation process. Instead I created user for her and sudo entry
> was created automatically.
> --
> Hiisi.

Thats a policy they have. They opt for the notion that users are
stupid enough not to be trusted with a root password. All the admin
tools use sudo, gksu or gksudo. The only way to drop to root is use
runlevel 1 or activate the root account using `sudo passwd'.

Fedora on the other hand encourages the use of potentially powerful
admin tools. We use polkit instead to keep track of the permissions.
It is a contrasting philosophy which makes me love Fedora over Ubuntu.
As far as I understand the feeling is the same for most of us on this
list.

In conclusion, Ubuntu is different enough for us to love Fedora over it.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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