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Well, ok, it may have just put them in /etc, /usr/opt, /etc/local, and /moustache. It wasn't that it did or didn't put things in /usr/local, but that there wasn

Well, ok, it may have just put them in /etc, /usr/opt, /etc/local, and /moustache. It wasn't that it did or didn't put things in /usr/local, but that there wasn't a consistently followed layout like OpenBSD's (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier). Also, like I said - it's probably gotten better since ten years ago. It was really annoying, though, and I'm not misremembering things: I specifically switched from RedHat to Debian because I was sick of it. It wasn't consistent with itself, let alone any standard.

ciupicri 16y ago
Linux had and still has the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.ht...). It's true that it hasn't been 100% stable, but things do evolve and it's quite logical.
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nailer 16y ago
Linux has had the FHS since the late 90s. * Config files go in /etc. * Spools, caches an so on go in /var * Binaries for all users go in /bin if they're important, /usr/bin if they're less so * Binaries for root go in /sbin if they're important, /usr/sbin if they're less so The standard was mature a decade ago and long before then. I suspect you just may have not been used to the standard.
- silentbicycle 16y ago
  I get that Linux uses a different standard layout than BSD. I really do. The thing is that when I was using RedHat, years and years ago, its paths were not internally consistently. I'm talking about that specific distro, at that specific time. Debian was much better in that regard, and I didn't look back.
  - nailer 16y ago
    OK. I (and it seems the other poster) knows from our own experience that Red Hat's stuck closely to the FHS for years. There's only one folder - /etc/rc.d/init.d - consistent in Red Hat but symlinked to the correct /etc/init.d location used by other distros - that's been a significant difference in the last decade.

ciupicri 16y ago

Linux had and still has the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy (http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.ht...). It's true that it hasn't been 100% stable, but things do evolve and it's quite logical.

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nailer 16y ago

Linux has had the FHS since the late 90s. * Config files go in /etc. * Spools, caches an so on go in /var * Binaries for all users go in /bin if they're important, /usr/bin if they're less so * Binaries for root go in /sbin if they're important, /usr/sbin if they're less so The standard was mature a decade ago and long before then. I suspect you just may have not been used to the standard.

silentbicycle 16y ago
I get that Linux uses a different standard layout than BSD. I really do. The thing is that when I was using RedHat, years and years ago, its paths were not internally consistently. I'm talking about that specific distro, at that specific time. Debian was much better in that regard, and I didn't look back.
- nailer 16y ago
  OK. I (and it seems the other poster) knows from our own experience that Red Hat's stuck closely to the FHS for years. There's only one folder - /etc/rc.d/init.d - consistent in Red Hat but symlinked to the correct /etc/init.d location used by other distros - that's been a significant difference in the last decade.