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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: File hierarchy (was Re: Linux or FreeBSD) Date: 25 Sep 1995 09:01:51 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 36 Message-ID: <445nlf$6qc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <409iah$inf@galaxy.ucr.edu> <43ltqq$3k1@agate.berkeley.edu> <43pvh8$c6j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4439ke$f1r@newsy.ifm.liu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Christer Weinigel <wingel@hog.rydnet.lysator.liu.se> wrote: >Linux has gone through a lot of changes during the last years, and the >File System Standard (FSSTND) is one of them. Astonishingly enough, >most Linux distributions have adopted it. At least Slackware and >RedHat claim to adhere to it, and I suspect that the Bogus and >InfoMagic distributions do too. After realizing how old the Linux version was that i've got on my notebook, i've quickly deleted it. :-) >>The last Linux distribution i've seen (some Slackware derivative) had >>tons of binaries under /etc, > >A quick `file /etc/*' on my system reveals no binaries at all in my >/etc-directory, and only two symlinks for programs which look for >/etc/utmp and /etc/wtmp. This is on a basic Slackware system, >although it's been fouled up beyond all recognition since I converted >my system to ELF. The stuff in /etc is still fairly vanilla though. Well, as i wrote in another posting: blame S.u.S.E. for it. It's their distribution i've been installing (on another machine, not my notebook), and this one wasn't _that_ old. They apparently did a good job in creating a nifty installation program and translating major parts into German, but lagged far behind the state of the art. But hey, that's the sad point i mentioned: there are too many weird Linux distributions around, and until you've really installed it (somehow), you don't know what you've got (unless it's really one of the plain major distributions). I've really been surprised to see a Linux 0.99.foo kernel in mid-1995. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)