Henry's Points

Ubuntu 7.10 has been launched for several days. As Ubuntu’s loyalty user, I decided to upgrade my home workstation to Ubuntu 7.10. Installation was simple. It took less than half an hour to see familiar desktop.

Then, I found out it did not come up with Apache package. It was not big deal, I thought. I used apt-get to get Apache tarball.

sudo apt-get install apache2

Unfortunately however, it failed. I went to search why it happened. The general answer was: To get Apache package from the website. Well, okay, it was still not big deal for me. I downloaded Apache package and untar it to my home directory. I began to deploy the “Magic Three Steps”.

./configure –prefixe=/usr/bin

Unfortunately, configuration failed due to miss some libraries. Faint…

So, again, I went to search for those libraries and install to my brand new Ubuntu 7.10. These time, “./configure” followed by “make” and “make install”, all steps were successful.

I typed my host name to web browser and happily saw the words: “It Works”.

Finally, I got it. For desktop users, go Ubuntu since it provide a lot of drivers to compatible with your hardware. For workstation/server users, go Fedora. I don’t mention the reason, do I?

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