Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?
Am Sonntag 27 August 2006 07:05 schrieb Theodore Tso:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:02:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > - installer did not read in the CDs for package lists and the GUI does
> > not even support this (or for any other means of modifying
> > /etc/apt/sources.list)
> >
> >From the menubar. System --> Administration --> Synaptic Package Manager
Funny, Synaptic was not installed but something called adept. Guess what you
have to do to install Synaptic ;)
> > - /etc/resolv.conf was not present but DHCP client complained about that
>
> Hmm, I didn't notice this problem. When the dhcp client started
> during the install process, it created the /etc/resolv.conf file for
> me, and subsequent dhcp clients updated the /etc/resolv.conf file
> information automatically from the DHCP serve.
As I said, only a "touch /etc/resolv.conf" solved the problem.
> > - the "root has no password and you must use sudo" sucks for many things
> > as the access to root is not consistent (some invocation type can use su
> > programs but those cannot work).
>
> That's a philosophical dispute, but it's easily fixed simply by
> setting a root password if you really want to use a root shell. (Or
> by just doing sudo bash, of course.) I happen to like having a root
> user with a password and to su to root, so I set up my system that
> way. However, I view that as an emacs vs. vi sort of religious
> dispute.
I meant the graphical su variants, IIRC it's called gtksu. Sure, those things
are solvable if you know why they do not work and what's actually the
difference between *su and sudo. However, the one that installed this machine
did not know this (now he does).
> > - X ran with the wrong resolution (typical i915 problem) and with the
> > wrong dpi setting
>
> Can't speak to that; my ATI Firegl video worked automatically out of
> the box --- with 3D accelerated graphics automatically.
Xorg seems to be broken here, too, as i915resolution showed me entries where
xorg said they were empty. Strange.
> > - /etc/network/interfaces listed non-existant devices and because of WPA,
> > a manual setup of this file is needed
>
> I didn't notice that problem.
Well, I guess installing wpa_supplicant _and_ network-manager would have
solved that problem.
> > - something useful like ifplugd was not installed and the user was
> > puzzled by the fact that plugging in the network cable did not
> > result in network access
>
> I agree that it would be nice if ifplugd or laptop-net were installed
> by default, but last I checked Debian didn't install either by
> default, either. So what's your point?
It's all about expectations. Always keep in mind that the target group differs
a lot between Ubuntu and Debian.
HS
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