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Sorry, this is silly. You're (almost) always better off running as a regular user and using sudo. In the worst case you can sudo su. Suggesting that linux newbi
by jacobscott 18y ago
Sorry, this is silly. You're (almost) always better off running as a regular user and using sudo. In the worst case you can sudo su. Suggesting that linux newbies run as root is poor advice.
- jcl 18y agoI'm pretty sure this is supposed to be a joke article.
- Hexstream 18y agoI'm worried some kid will read this and will be "enlightened".
- jcl 18y agoProbably the same kid who uses ed because they heard that "ed is the standard text editor". :)
- silentbicycle 18y ago?
- jcl 18y agohttp://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
- silentbicycle 18y ago?
- tdavis 18y agoHahaha! Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
- neilk 18y agoThere was a big ad to click through. Linkbait, I think.
- Retric 18y agoBut if we don't give children access to nukes how will they learn to be wise. -C
- mlLK 18y agoI gotta play with a city when I was 12. Hell, they gave me nukes, aliens, riots, hurricanes, tornadoes; I used a whole class of disasters.