User:Tdang/XO Command Line Tips

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I'm a Linux novice, so I can't give much advice, but hopefully the advice I can give is handy for other novices. I'm not going to worry here what's Linux-general and what's XO-specific.

su and root

On most systems, you'll need a special password to do system-wrecking things. On the XO, it's easy to do it. Of course, being able to do system-wrecking things also means being able to do very useful things.

In Terminal, you'll need to become a superuser...