FHS

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Yeah, that's an excellent idea, and all the Distro's need to come to some agreement 
on that pronto!  Although, as I understand it, the various flavors of Unix don't 
agree eithre ...
Microsoft sort of tries to standardize the filesystem setup w/ the "Program Files" 
folder in Win95.  It was always fun in the DOS world to try to remember what arcane 
"8.3" format code a program setup would use! :-(  At least Linux allows more 
descriptive names!  

Another thing I'd like to see is a certain basic set of command line configuration 
tools that's incluted in EVERY Linux Distro.  Such as "xf86config".  I installed, 
sucessfully, Gentoo Linux this weekend, but I can't find the X-Windows 
configruation tools.  Again, I'm not looking very hard, but I'd really like to see 
certain tools agreed upon as standards that you can use to configure a basic setup 
from the command line.  After all, X-Windows is a GUI that sits over top of the 
basic system, unlike Windows, it's NOT the system, and you can totally ignore X-
Windows and still have a very productive machine using text editors, word 
processors, email programs and web browsers that run very happily and effectively 
from the command line.  

Now I'm straying too far.  Thanks for the explaination!  

-Greg


> As I have seen more than one person ask me about this, I decided that a 
> different topic/post was worthwile.
> 
> FHS=Filesystem Hierarchy System
> 
> It is one of the main things that helps to promote standardization between 
> Linux distro's.  It outlines in a loose structure of how and where things 
> should be found on any Linux distro, determines what is required on 
> /  where doc's should be put and so forth.
> 
> NOTE: it also leaves allowances for 'custom' distro's.. just tries to help 
> standardize.
> 
> One of the topics of study for the LPI cert.. I take test 1 on Friday 4/12..
> 
> Chaz®
>