Re: Good bye

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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

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