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As an application, sudo pre-dates Ubuntu, but it is true that Ubuntu
started this madness of replacing the root account system with sudo. It is
also true that most of the distros using sudo are derived from Ubuntu.

As far as I know, Redhat has never used sudo, but sudo has been available
as an application with which admins gave limited admin rights to others. A
few Linux distros now offer the option of sudo or the root account system
during installation. And I always choose the root account system. Nobody
has been able to convince me that sudo is better, because it is not.

Making a case for using sudo because it is used by a popular Linux distro
reminds me of the mistake that Linux developers made when Linux was just
starting to gather attention. Virtually every dump feature was copied from
Windows because "the users we are targeting will be coming from Windows."

So the KDE guys made every attempt to copy the "look and feel" of Windows.
The result was that innovation on the (Linux) desktop died. why innovate
when all you want to do is copy what the other guy is doing. This is why
the desktop is in a pathetic state.

Things are looking better, but you can still see the same mistakes in
other areas.

Cheers,

--
Fini Decima
http://LinuxBSDos.com





> The most admin friendly distro I ever used was called opensolaris...
>
> This kind of discussions discusion has to do with taste, educating your
> taste involves learning to enjoy the differences, there is no point in
> making everithing to taste the same.
>
> Br
> gab
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Sean O'Brien
> <upinthecloudz at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Well, yeah, all the other 'sudo for admin model' using distros are
>> > probably Ubuntu derived...
>>
>>
>> No, not at all. 'sudo' has been used in RedHat since v7 at least, and
>> has
>> been in every single distribution of Linux I have ever used since. It's
>> much
>> older than Ubuntu. Please, please stop whining about user-friendliness.
>> It
>> is about the only thing that any open-source project, including this
>> one,
>> could actually use more of. Your fanboyish and ignorant FUD is something
>> that we do not need.
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