Building subsurface on Ubuntu

[Robert C. Helling]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013, Dirk Hohndel wrote:


> So let's add that to the website.

I would support that. Just copy&paste from Jan's mail.

> I'll be more than happy to rewrite that page so it is easier to
> understand.

I think the 1. 2. 3. approach giving explicit commands to copy&paste to 
the command line is the way to go. It is relatively newbee save and people 
who know more can read and abstract for themselves.

> The question that SHOULD be shown is "would you like to upgrade to a 
> real Linux distribution?" and then links to openSUSE, Fedora or 
> Archlinux :-)

YMMV. All I see is that more and more people in my bubble have moved to 
Ubuntu in recent years, I see this as the distribution of choice for many 
physics/maths university departements (often having used Debian before) 
but for other people as well. For my wife for example (coming from a 
non-tech background) Ubuntu was the first distribution she could accept 
having a MS background. My own trajectory was: Starting with some SUSE 4.x 
CDs in 1994 transitioning to Debian around '99 and now choosing Ubuntu 
more and more often (in particular if I want to quickly install on a box 
without being asked too many questions or if I want people like my dad 
being able to install upgrades themselves). And no, I don't like unity 
(and usually turn it off).

Best
Robert

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