Talk:Linux software

Should a distinction be made between built in shell commands and everything else?

Where should novice users learn about $PATH ?

I have witnessed users that had experienced hours of frustration because of not knowing some of the above. In the forum pages, I read entries where someone actually installed full firefox on his xo, then couldn't get it to execute (I am quite sure because it was not in his PATH), asked for help, and ended up selling or giving away his xo out of frustration.

For some reason, I think it was SUGAR_PATH or something like that, among other things, I have always used "su -p" whenever I need su permission.