Thread: LINUX

Originally Posted by Troy

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Ubuntu's OK. It supports a fair chunk of legacy hardware and it's a reasonable distro on which to cut your teeth. Once you get a feel for it, you can progress to better builds that need a little more understanding.

Not sure you would need a different Linux distro Harry...you can just install the packages you need that Ubuntu doesn't have as default. (Putting them in /opt of course to show they are not part of the distro)

Unless you were compiling from source that would make no sense. Even if you are compiling from source it makes no sense. To install software use a package manager, standard on all distros. Ubuntu defaults to Debian-style .dpkg package management and you'd normally use the aptitude command set to manage your packages. For example, if you wanted to install a webserver on your Ubuntu Distro you would more than likely start off by typing something like 'apt-get install httpd" at your command line, you would almost certainly not be typing something along the lines of './configure --prefix=/opt'!

To install software you've made yourself package up your code and then use a package manager to install it. Unless you have very specific need you would rarely, if ever, need to drop anything in /opt.