[ale] IRC and directory structure questions

[Matthew Brown]

1.    
Do any of you IRC much?  Where is a good place to go for this - that 
doesn't have all the porn/file sharing/etc.  I am mainly interested in 
technical IRC.
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2.    
Is there an accepted standard for laying out files in a directory 
structure?  For example, say I have a .tar.gz file I want to 
download.  It is, say, vmware-yada-yada.tar.gz.  Where would you put 
it?  ~/...?   Where do you install it to?    
/usr/...?
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3.    
Now let's talk about the actual data files for something like vmware...  
These would need to be shared for many users.  Would it go under /opt/... 
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Coming from the 
Windows background, this issue has always confused me.  I suppose I 
could have created my own set of directories, but that would create more 
mayhem!
 
Hope you're having a great 
day!
 
Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
CorData, Inc.
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