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   michel.firholz@web.de to All   
   Re: My ubuntu experience   
   19 Jan 07 09:24:06   
   
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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:24:06 +0100   
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   SINNER wrote:   
   > * Laszlo Lebrun wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >> Hachiroku ???? wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:36:16 +0100, Michel Firholz wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> I just followed a thread about unmounting drives (a must in Linux)   
   >>>> ... In most of the current distributions, you just today right   
   >>>> click the icon and select "safely remove"...   
   >>>> Those guys still open a console (not really: they *always* have one   
   >>>> or two consoles open...) and use to type in some lines in   
   >>>> volapük*...   
   >   
   >   
   >>> "Unable to unmount device...see details...You are not root"   
   >   
   >> there is no root in ubuntu... isn't it?   
   >   
   > There is if you give root a password.   
   >   
   why should you do that? that is explicitly not recommended.    
      
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