I use Debian Testing and Xfce. I used to use Ubuntu and Mint, also.


message from Beatrice

Hi, somebody used my page to leave me a comment, so I hope you don't mind I do the same with yours. and you can delete it as soon as possible of course.

I see you are making some updating, with changes like

$ cd /usr/src
# tar -zxf nvidia-kernel-source.tar.gz

I imagine you want to stress what commands are to be executed as root. I was thinking though, that if your prompt looks like "$" in the first command, it will look like "$" for the second command too, unless you change user. I am afraid the two different prompts can generate confusion. Just my thoughts, of course.

Sorry to bother you and thanks for listening, BeatriceTorracca


reply by Calinou

I put $ for non-root and # for root because we currently have no good way of saying whether a command should be run as root or not (repeating "This should be run as root" in nearly every single page isn't a good option).


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