I just bought the Dell Inspiron 1420

[Jerry Davis]

it has been a while, but I think I did:

sudo su -
password: xxxxx

# passwd root
Enter new pwd for root.

jerry


On Friday 31 August 2007 19:59, Phillip Waclawski wrote:
> I called Dell to see if there was a way to avoid the "Vista Tax" on one
> of the 1520's, but no go. So, using the educational discount, I ordered
> one of the Dell Inspiron 1420's with Ubuntu. I should get it by the end
> of September.
>
> Oh, I'm not sure if I can make any more of the meetings, but does
> someone post them to this list? I would like to come by and drop off
> some of the schwag I got from the LinuxWorld Expo.
>
> And, on the Ubuntu note. I have not played with it much, but I do know
> that it uses Sudo instead of su and a root account. How hard is it to
> set up a root account/su, and also install the server support software
> (apache, mysql, python, php etc)?
>
> I know I can figure it out for myself when I get it, but any advice to
> reduce the learning curve will be appreciated. Though I may still be
> tempted just to put Fedora 7 on it ;)
>
> Phil Waclawski
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