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What about SSH-ing into the box from your Mac? In Ubuntu's case, this does require installing openssh first.

When your every move is monitored, you won't see me.

Yeah, but a sudo apt-get install openssh-server is easily done ;)

cu, w0lf.

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Or even

apt-get install ssh

if you want an ssh client and server.

When your every move is monitored, you won't see me.

The ssh-client itself gets shipped with the base install of Ubuntu - so you only need to install the server if you really need it ;)

cu, w0lf.

Naturally, I love Jesus very much. I love him so much that I'd like to crucify him all over again.

I switched to Ubuntu today, probably permanently. After several months of gentoo use, the little quirks finally got to me. Ubuntu just works, installs in minutes as compared to days for gentoo, and gentoo's main stength is shared by ubuntu (IMO): it's HUGE ASS package repository. If I want a package, ubuntu has it. Actually, things I wanted on gentoo are available for ubuntu (but weren't on gentoo, obviously).

7.10 is awesome, enough said. Oh, and compiz comes stock. o.O

I should be ashamed of myself.

Oh, and compiz comes stock.

Ooh, is it stable yet?

Consider yourself hugged.

This post was edited by null on Oct 28, 2007.

For the most part. I can't say it's crashed on me. I don't care for the impact it has on games, though, so I simply turn it off. Metacity is good enough for me...

Give 7.10 a try. I hated ubuntu until 7.10, when it simply became THE linux to use. I'm gonna write a post about why I switched from gentoo to ubuntu, as there were a LOT of reasons.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Haven't had any crashes or freezes yet either. Of course having the "right" video hardware helps. YMMV.
I suspect that now that it's enabled in Ubuntu by default, remaining bugs will be stomped out of troublesome applications (and Compiz Fusion itself) more quickly.

When your every move is monitored, you won't see me.

This post was edited by oKtosiTe on Oct 30, 2007.

After putting it off for months, I too have made that switch. Well, something similar. I've finally moved over my home partition from Gentoo to Ubuntu (music collection, artwork, etc.) on my main box.
Using Gentoo has been highly educational, but I decided I spent too much time staying up-to-date and too little developing.
I still need to move my server back to Debian, though...

When your every move is monitored, you won't see me.

Still easy, using the startup scripts in /etc/init.d

can't remember exactly where it is in there, but an example would be

%sudo /etc/init.d/network restart

or if you don't put the "restart" there, it will come back with an error dialog teling you what possible options you can pass to the startup script. This is not just useful for your network stack, but for anything that launches during boot. Try
% /etc/init.d <TAB>

to see what all is in the folder.

cheers,
Mac

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