Re: Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch
2009/9/11 Hiisi <very-cool(a)rambler.ru>:
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.
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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.
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.