gNewSense

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 06:17:33PM -0500, James Kramer wrote:
> I am planing to migrate my system from Debian Sarge to gNewSense.  I
> basically use the station for my dual boot home network.  I do have some
> websites running on Apache 2 and Plone 2, and a mail server running Exim so
> up time is sort of a premium.  Is there any reason not to make the switch.
> I really want to switch to gNewSense so I am willing to contend with
> configuration issues.  gNewSense is based on Ubuntu and Debian. 

gNewSense (at this point) is basically Ubuntu Dapper minus some non-free bits
and with different artwork. The non-free bits include a couple of packages,
and some binary blobs in the kernel.

> Does it
> require the use of sudo for root access similar to ubuntu?  If so, would

No, Ubuntu does not either, but encourages it. 

> someone be kind enough to provide the proper sudo command for root access?

sudo su

Thanks,
Ward.

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