Modern File Heirarchy

[Jason Knight-Martin]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 12:21:55AM -0600, Bryan Livingston wrote:
>   
>>> Concurrent installs of different versions/etc can be done in GNU/Linux as
>>> well. Is there an aspect of this that you're referring to that prevents
>>> or discourages this?
>>>       
>> With Linux I'm only familiar with doing it on separate partitions.  In
>> windows at least you can run side by side on a single file system.
>>     
>
> As I said before, that's only because Windows is terrible at handling
> partitions.
>
>   
In the end, the hierarchy is arbitrary, you can write any interpretation 
to cover it up and make it appear different, as we have seen on
OSX. Personally, I come from the Linux as a religion corner, unless you 
can show without doubt that the filesystem is essentially flawed,
then you are messing with something sacro-sanct out of self-importance. 
Of all the things on the dock to work on in the Linux environment,
changing the filesystem opens up the least number of possibilities for 
advancement in concrete usability.

/Jason Knight