03-12-2018, 07:18 AM
(03-12-2018, 05:44 AM)borisacomputers Wrote:(03-09-2018, 07:49 AM)dkryder Wrote: this is why rpi is not doing you any favors. rpi attempts to make life easy for you and in the process removes you from learning about a lot of what is involved with having a linux o/s. when you first boot rock64 there is a user account called rock64. so first account is there. since you do not mention which version of linux you have it's hard to say what else except you might want to start reading about the operation of a basic linux operating system and learn about how things work outside of rpi.
RPI is not doing me any favors? I write an image with Etcher, it boots, i get the option to run the OS live or install it. I installed it. Now its an SMB server and VPN server, and works very well.
With the Rock 64 and Ubuntu Mate or Debian Stretch, its only a live CD version, i cant change passwords, cant add users, nothing.
So can I do a real install of Debian Stretch or ubuntu Mate with the Rock 64?
You still didnt tell us what OS distro are you using and yes you can have a real debian stretch or ubuntu on the rock64 but not with a desktop environment yet (or yea even with a desktop environment if you know a bit about linux) so again, raspbian is sold as a learning OS but is not teaching a lot of essentials, its not helping you in the basic task it is meant to...
Also, ANY distro and i mean AAANNNYYY distro i know off let you use the passwd and adduser commands...
Last you complain about "real" stretch and mate, stretch is the name of a distro and mate is the name of a desktop environment, so what exactly do you need? one of the official big distros or a desktop environment? (if we complain is preferably to complain correctly otherwise our complains are ignored that includes answering previous specific questions)
