On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:51:45AM +0000, Rick Engebretson wrote: > Pardon me for being dumb, but a major hurdle to learning Linux is the > directory. The file abbreviations are made for the text console and > keyboard, but with a nice GUI a descriptive name system would really > help. Descriptive GUI names won't be present until somebody puts them there and most of the people writing the code don't need them. While you make an interesting point (and one which I've never heard mentioned before), you might be better off just grabbing a copy of the FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) and reading that. Not that everyone follows it, but at least it should provide enough background information to figure out the logic behind the placement of various files. > Also, the directory tree seems less than hierarcical. Oh? In what way? > 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. Finding config files is (ideally) simple. They're generally either in /etc or symlinked there. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+