There are more than a half-dozen different ways to install a program.

I need an explanation of the directories in linux. Where are programs kept, and what directories do what and have what inside them?<BR><BR>/bin<BR>/boot<BR>/dev<BR ...

There was a time when Linux was much simpler. You’d load a driver, it would find your device at boot up, or it wouldn’t. That was it. Now, though, people plug and unplug USB devices all the time and ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...