considdering getting debian

[dobby156]

righty then, i am relatively new to the world of linux, but fairly competant at computing in general, how ever the distro i have been using was ubuntu 7.04. now as a OS it is brilliant but i need to use more as workunit, and need a distro which will let mess around in the ./ files, i have found ubuntu to securty minded. i am not worried about losing work as i have none on it yet, any idea for a suitible distro.

many thanks

[devils casper]

you can do that in Ubuntu too. enable root login in GUI or use 'sudo' to gain root privileges or execute this

gksu nautilus

you will have all the permissions/privileges to delete/edit anything in Nautilus.

[dobby156]

yeah ive tried that, it no hassel for me, i would just like a simplish distro which ha no strong permission features

[devils casper]

'root' login is disabled in Ubuntu by default and this is the only security/permission feature that make it different from other distros.
either enable GUI 'root' login in Ubuntu OR try any other distro ( Fedora, SuSe ) which allow root login by default. Slackware uses 'root' login by default and you have to setup normal user manually after installation.

[dobby156]

i dont mean to continue complaining but are there any othere distro, just tis a fairly old PC for fedora.

[Roxoff]

If you're gonna use the computer for browsing the internet, then it's safer if you dont use root privileges for your main user. You can always log in as root if you like, turn off SELinux if your chosen distro is using it, and off you go.

[dobby156]

hi, i have decided to change my linux distro as i have foundubuntu to restrictive, what i need is an OS which i can log on in as root without any faffing about. is debian suitible for this, and can i install this on a pentium 3 with over 256 of ram, and is it free, and how many cd does it come on

[gruven]

You aren't understanding that this is the way of Linux.

Some distros will allow you to login as root in a gui, but 99% won't anymore. You can enable that so called "feature" by changing a couple settings, but really, why not just open a terminal and su to root to do stuff.

You can enable the root account very easily in ubuntu so that it will be just like any other distro.

sudo passwd root

That is all you have to do.

You may not be able to login to a gui as root, but really, who wants to do that? Just su anytime you need root privileges.

Security is the idea behind all unix based operating systems.

[Juan Pablo]

Every distro is as restrictive as Ubuntu (except on the defualt sudo), this is how Linux works, you can change it, of course but you don't need a new distro for that.

[dobby156]

yay, thanks for the input, i took your advice and figured out how to log in as root