Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Firefox update ???

What can I say? Some people just like to do things the hard way. ;)

There are still many purists who like to get as close to the action as they
can and install from source code. Thankfully there are distros for such
people and you can even do it on Ubuntu if that is your thing.

I used Gentoo for a time, but found that it was too time consuming for me. I
need something that is lower maintenance, but others have the time and
inclination that I lack. It is a good learning experience and it gives you a
finely tuned system.

Where do you stand now? Do you prefer the pre-built convenience or the hands
on approach?

My comments were for newbies, who had best stick to the repositories until
they develop skills and confidence. From there the sky is the limit!

Roy

On 25 March 2010 06:54, Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> Roy wrote:
> > Welcome to Linux!
> >
> > Linux is NOT Windows. Do NOT download applications from individual web
> sites
> > such as Mozilla. Ubuntu applications are placed in secure and maintained
> > repositories. To install them you use a package manager. Ubuntu comes
> with
> > two of them, Synaptic and Software Centre. You can use either, but not
> both
> > at the same time. You need to provide your password. To install
> > applications. Unlike Windows you don't choose where to install.
> Applications
> > are installed in protected folders in the root file system.
> >
>
> It's amazing how much of what you say in this post was not correct, for
> me, until just a few months ago. :)
>
> Starting in Linux as I did, with Red Hat 7 and Slackware back in 2000, I
> had to learn how to do things like compile from source code, tweak
> makefiles, etc.
>
> Even as recently as Open Office 2, on RHEL3, I was still tracking down
> dependencies on my own.
>
> I did not discover yum until a few months ago, when I upgraded to CentOS
> 5.4.
>
> Holy Crap! Welcome to the 21st Century, Wittig!
>
> I still install small apps w/o a lot of dependencies into my local
> /home/wittig/bin directory, because I write some of my own code and
> libraries, so it is a nice, local place to put things.
>
> Linux has come a looong way, since 2000.
>
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