----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Layer" <blayer at qwest.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:18 Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Linux directory naming system > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:51:45 GMT > "Rick Engebretson" <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > > MS Windows (since 3.0) does have a very clean directory and system > > configuration structure. I realize this is an apples and oranges > > comparison. But even simple configuration of Linux isn't simple. > > There was an article on this in Linux Journal about a year ago, but they > really only scratched the surface. One problem, is that the exact > structure and content of the trees varies from distro to distro... and > then there is the /opt/ tree, which seems to be the place that all 3rd > party software will eventually go, but since there is no distro standard, > this is dubious. There is the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (in progress) which you can get info on at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ That may alleviate some of the issues with different UNIX and UNIX-like OSes having different structures, if, or course, they all decided to follow it. Currently it looks like the work is centered around getting the various Linuxes all on the same page. If even that much can be done it will be a great thing, I think.