On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: [...]
Now the next question is, how to get the binaries to run on any distro? Or should I just compile on Ubuntu because most people run that (do they still, after Unity?)?
Compile on Debian Stable or even Debian OldStable, taking care to still make sure you have all the important dependencies, sometimes adding some backported packages. Typically you'd do this in a chroot. Then it will run on all relevant Linux distributions.