Re: Debian Pure

There is not even a place to set up a user name. ???

Dee McKinney wrote:

>Use you 'user name' password for this in Ubuntu/Kubuntu. Not root.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
>>Matthew Dunaway
>>Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 10:45 AM
>>Cc: aklug@aklug.org
>>Subject: Re: Debian Pure
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>>Greg Madden wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:45 am, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
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>>>>Anybody tried this yet???
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>>>>http://www.debianpure.com/index.html
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>>>Another Debian derivative, um mm. I wouldn't call it 'pure' though .
>>>Debian arguably strives for that state of nirvana but adding other
>>>sources to the sources.list to make a distro more user friendly does
>>>not make it 'pure', or even more user friendly, or even legal in the US.
>>>IMHO, Ubuntu has done all this rather well and if you can stand the
>>>politics of Ubuntu you might as well use ... it.
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>>Funny you should mention Ubuntu, as I downloaded Kubuntu last night. I
>>tried the "Live" version.
>>Problem was, when I tried to configure my DSL account, it wanted "root"
>>permission. Except there was no place to enter or even set up a root
>>username/password. It boots into the user account. I tried ending the
>>session and see if a root account was available, no such luck.
>>Any ideas????
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