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Distribution: Open SUSE 11, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, Slackware 12.1
Posts: 7
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All software in Linux is added or removed with a included package manager.In the SUSE I think it is contained within the YAST. And all those short name folders are the primary directories of your Linux, so you really should not delete any item which is not known like that. And here is some links; http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxdir.html , and here; http://www.justlinux.com/index.php , http://www.linux.org/
All software in Linux is added or removed with a included package manager
In general this is true, however you can install software from source
(when it's not available in the repo's, or when you want the latest version)
A good exercise is to put self compiled software in /opt.
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