Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

On 2008/02/28 12:44 (GMT-+100) Martin Schlander apparently typed:

> Regular root user is much simpler. Either you're root or your not, either you 
> know the root password or you don't. Couldn't possibly be easier to 
> understand.

+1

> > > on startup, there's a 10 seconds delay in grub. Ubuntu only uses 1 or 2
> > > seconds. It helps with the feeling of booting faster.

> I think it's 8 by default? Might make sense to make it 5 or so. Perhaps enter 
> some text that says the timer will be stopped by pressing a key (other than 
> Enter)

I usually change it to 15, so there's some time to digest what is seen and
maybe press a key to halt automatic progress before blindly going ahead into
the unknown.

> I think the general point of view around these parts is that the success of 
> Ubuntu has a lot more to do with astoute marketing trickery, than with 
> technological prowess.

+1

e.g.: blind adherence to the Debian "what's a runlevel" system, where either
you're in single, or everything's running. I like the simplicity of disabling
X by dropping to 3, or disabling networking by dropping to 2, either of which
is easily accomplished at boot time by appending the level to cmdline in
non-Debians.

The *buntu bug tracking system is a mess. Bugs can have multiple components
each, and seem to attract a ton of obfuscating metoo comments and rude
triagers/owners. e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129910
-- 
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and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
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 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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