[brlug-general] Xubuntu Experiment

[Shannon Roddy]

On 7/6/07, Chopin Cusachs <cusachs at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Decided to play with Xubuntu on an older machine.
>
> So I downloaded the iso image and burned a live CD.
>
> Came up fine -- no login.
>
> Played with it some time, and decided to shut down.
> Did not find a button in the GUI, nor anything like a
> shutdown on a menu, so I opened a terminal and
> tried the shutdown command.  It didn't like my
> user privilege, so I tried su, and  got a login screen.
> Couldn't guess password -- started with carriage
> return.  Since I had not installed the OS, there was
> no supervisor account password.

Ubuntu disables the root account, but gives the first user during
install sudo privileges.  Therefore, sudo shutdown would have done
what you wanted assuming that the live CD does things similarly to the
install.  Alternatively, if you wanted a root shell, you could have
just done sudo bash.

Ubuntu does a couple of things differently than many other distros,
but all in all, it seems to be much better once you get used to their
quirks.

There is usually a "power button" in the gui near the clock at the top
of the screen.  At least I think that is where they put it in Xubuntu.
 It is red, square, with a circle with a line through it IIRC.


-Shannon