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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!nodecg.ncc.telecomwa.oz.au!netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au!orca1.vic.design.telecom.com.au!news.tansu.com.au!picasso.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au!newshost!chrisb From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Stability: FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux ? Date: 09 May 1995 09:21:10 GMT Organization: Telecom Australia Lines: 25 Message-ID: <CHRISB.95May9192110@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> References: <ortegaD7puFE.Dp2@netcom.com> <D7ysqA.A6I@ritz.mordor.com> <3o6gj4$e1m@agate.berkeley.edu> <3o84ia$fa6@newshost.lanl.gov> <1995May3.185147.4535@mdl.sandia.gov> Reply-To: chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au In-reply-to: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov's message of Wed, 3 May 1995 18:51:47 GMT In article <1995May3.185147.4535@mdl.sandia.gov> aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) writes: >This goes back a number of years I believe (about 6 or >7 years?). The story, as I remember, was that Sun, Dec, >CSRG (and perhaps others) got together to restructure >the filesystem to support networking, diskless workstations, >and heterogeneous platforms better. Out of that came, >amoung other things, the more familiar /var, a read-only /usr, >an /etc holding only local config files with the executables >moved to /usr/etc or /sbin and /usr/sbin, and all >heterogeneously shareable files moved to /usr/share. > >Personally, I was very glad to see it, but disappointed >to see how long it's taken for some commercial vendors to >catch on (HP is just now implementing it in HP-UX 10.0). >It's sad, if it's true, that Linux knows nothing of this, >but fortunately very easy to fix. The Linux file system standard, (which is adhered to by almost all, if not all distributions), has used this layout for quite a long time now. -- Chris Bitmead chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au