[ale] Linux Distributions

Chris Ricker kaboom at oobleck.net
Tue May 17 16:10:40 EDT 2005


On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 15:05 -0400, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> >
> > I spend maybe 5 minutes installing and configuring sudo for my user,  
> > and that's it.  How is this a burden on your configuration again?  
> 
> I do use sudo, chiefly because I know how to use it as a power user.
> The issue isn't whether or not sudo is for me.. the question is whether
> sudo is something my father can deal with when all he wants to do us use
> his iPod and burn dvds of family photos.

Neither of those even requires sudo. Any reasonably desktop-oriented 
distro can be configured to allow normal users to mount removable media 
and burn DVDs in no more time than configuring sudo requires.

later,
chris



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