[ale] Ubuntu questions - [was: vFAQ: Good distributions on Dell D610 laptops]

[villyard at comcast.net (Katherine Villyard)]

Preston Boyington wrote:
> the single cd has a feature to "install to hard drive".  i liked it,
> except for the root password thing.  it seems that everyone is in the
> "sudo" group.  that said, i have no problem with it as an everyday
> personal machine.
>   


Yeah, that's worth mentioning. Ubuntu assumes you're going to want to 
administer your machine through sudo, so when you go to change settings, 
install software, etc., it's your password it's asking for. If you don't 
want to use sudo, you can enable root.

Katherine