On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 21:52:30 -0700 Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:01:42 -0500
> "Alan Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 18:57:46 -0700 Ken Moffat wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd like to know the differences I can expect to encounter if I go
> > from
> > > eD2.4 to RH7.1.
>
> >
> > I just did this a few months ago. Now I'm trying to move from RH 7.1
> > to
> > Caldera 3.1.
> >
> > RH has it's nice points, teh new KDE for example. However, perl is
> > broken,
> > gcc has probnlms, and I have some nagging problems I don't understand
> > that
> > I hope will go away when I get Caldera running.
> >
> > The thing I hate is that they don't use /usr/local like everyone else.
> > Or
> > /opt. Makes it harder to segregate executables onto other disk
> > partitions
> > and generally manage stuff.
>
> Well, this gives me pause. What do they use instead of /usr/local and
> /opt? In reading the newsgroups, it seems most users are fairly happy
> with it, but maybe they don't know any better.
They pretty much slam everything into /usr/bin, which I don't care for.
I'm a long-time Sun user, and teh way Caldera does things is more like
Sun and other common Unices.
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