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Originally Posted by NullNix
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I've never used distros for stuff that wasn't originally designed for linux and and wasn't maintained by the linux community. There have been various instances of mangled installations for an app/package that the distro people unintentionally created when modifying the app's setup/layout to conform to the distro's setup/layout.
Although I often used the source and compiled it on the Linux machine. Apache I compiled, postgres I probably downloaded from their site or used the source, Java of course I got from Sun (shows you how long ago this was; before Oracle bought Sun).