[ale] IRC and directory structure questions

[John Wells]

Matthew,

for number 1, irc.openprojects.net is the home of most open source project
channels that I know of.  I use it almost exclusively.

John

Matthew Brown said:
> 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.
>
> 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/...?
>
> 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/... or /var/...?
>
> 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
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