On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 19:59 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > Neil Cherry wrote: > >> Karl Larsen wrote: > >>> I did a temporary setup of Ubuntu and started playing with it. I > >>> signed up for their technical list and have talked with some very > >>> smart people. > >> > >> The nice thing about Ubuntu is that you don't need to know a lot to > >> use it. The problem with Ubuntu is that nothing is in the 'standard' > >> places so you can fix things. > > > > > > I don't understand that. I think "standard" needs some definition. > > That 'standard' has been some trouble but an example is ifcfg-eth0. > Can't find it on Ubuntu. Using CPAN is quite a pain to do (I found > I was missing one small library, then I could install). I'm more of > a SYS-V guy having grown up with AT&T Unix. I like the Linux Standard > Base. I know there are differences between Debian based systems > and Red Hat based systems. I managed to (easily) get around the su > problem. > > > Generally, configuration files are approximately where package creators > > envisioned and work as they describe, > > But those that follow the LSB make things easier for folks. The one > thing that makes things interesting still is whether to put things > in /opt or in /usr/local. I'm an old timer so I tend to put things > in /usr/local. I never saw the use of /opt until I switched from RedHat to Caldera, way back when. Their thinking was it was better to have two separate partitions (/usr and /opt) to reduce the likelihood of things getting mashed up during an upgrade. /usr gets written to, all over the place, while /opt would be umounted, safely out of the way. Made sense to me. Owell, just my 2 cents. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
