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The equivalent for Haiku OS, without decades of legacy, conflicts, changes, history, backwards compatibility: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/filesy

The equivalent for Haiku OS, without decades of legacy, conflicts, changes, history, backwards compatibility: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/filesystem-layout.html https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/filesystem-layout... This shows you what Linux could be if it were redesigned from scratch without layers of patches/fixes. Nice, simple, and due to dynamically mounted read only package system, read-only actually means read only.

Rygian 3y ago
> "The home folder - /boot/home/" What relationship is there between home folders and the boot process?
- daaahhdekfbb 3y ago
  It says it's the boot volume, not necessarily the equivalent I guess of /boot on Linux where it's exclusively for boot related things.
  - terinjokes 3y ago
    You may want to email HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) as it seems you're shadow banned.
- postmodest 3y ago
  These are folders on the boot drive, which is always mounted on /boot?
  - etskinner 3y ago
    This seems like a bad choice. The home directory need not be on the boot drive. In fact, a lot of people put it on a separate drive, or at least a separate partition.
ahoka 3y ago
With a proper redesign from scratch, it could have the same success and market share Haiku has.
- DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
  Right, without back-compat, any system trying to gain marketshare is domed. ...but Linux has chroot, symlinks, hardlinks, and everything in-between - it's entirely possible to design a Linux environment where the clutter and warts of back-compat are only visible to the users and programs that need to see them.
  - mananaysiempre 3y ago
    I’d point in the direction of Nixpkgs’s buildFHSEnv, but unfortunately Nixpkgs has its own layers and layers of cruft (being more than fifteen years old by now).
  - Santosh83 3y ago
    GoboLinux attempts to reinvent the filesystem organisation for Linux while maintaining full compatibility.
    - sonicanatidae 3y ago
      With success?

Rygian 3y ago

> "The home folder - /boot/home/" What relationship is there between home folders and the boot process?

daaahhdekfbb 3y ago
It says it's the boot volume, not necessarily the equivalent I guess of /boot on Linux where it's exclusively for boot related things.
- terinjokes 3y ago
  You may want to email HN (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) as it seems you're shadow banned.
postmodest 3y ago
These are folders on the boot drive, which is always mounted on /boot?
- etskinner 3y ago
  This seems like a bad choice. The home directory need not be on the boot drive. In fact, a lot of people put it on a separate drive, or at least a separate partition.

ahoka 3y ago

With a proper redesign from scratch, it could have the same success and market share Haiku has.

DaiPlusPlus 3y ago
Right, without back-compat, any system trying to gain marketshare is domed. ...but Linux has chroot, symlinks, hardlinks, and everything in-between - it's entirely possible to design a Linux environment where the clutter and warts of back-compat are only visible to the users and programs that need to see them.
- mananaysiempre 3y ago
  I’d point in the direction of Nixpkgs’s buildFHSEnv, but unfortunately Nixpkgs has its own layers and layers of cruft (being more than fifteen years old by now).
- Santosh83 3y ago
  GoboLinux attempts to reinvent the filesystem organisation for Linux while maintaining full compatibility.
  - sonicanatidae 3y ago
    With success?