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