Fedora (Linux) is Destroying it self

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon May 11 20:40:30 UTC 2009


Michael Nielsen wrote:
> 4. Everything is thrown in huge collective directories, such as
> /usr/bin, /usr/lib etc, and it is a huge mess

This is called the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, and it encodes decades of
experience organizing file systems into a standard which minimizes
differences across implementations.

> just like windows with it's system32 directory, which is also a huge mess.

Actually Window$ is the system which started this "one directory per app"
stupidity. *nix has never worked that way.

        Kevin Kofler




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