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Take the Linux Filesystem Tour

100 points by giis 13y ago

rational_indian 13y ago
A good introduction to the Linux file system hierarchy for the uninitiated. Thanks for sharing.
- rodgerd 13y ago
  Sort of. It doesn't really cover the unification of / and /usr binaries and libraries that's ongoing.
  - runiq 13y ago
    Look at the date, the article is from 2009.
  - kzrdude 13y ago
    That's only Fedora/RedHat though. I'd love to see that in Debian, but there is no movement towards it yet.
dsyph3r 13y ago
The design of the website is awful. Its very difficult to read the content.
- bhauer 13y ago
  I am not a fan of the Linux default directory structure. But this web site's design? I see black sans-serif paragraphs of text on a white background. Plain, yes. Maybe a bit too plain. But awful?
  - dsyph3r 13y ago
    That's not what I see... http://oi57.tinypic.com/205rx9i.jpg http://oi57.tinypic.com/205rx9i.jpg
    - erpellan 13y ago
      When overlay adverts go horribly, horribly wrong...
      - JetSpiegel 13y ago
        That image is from tinypic, that's even worse!
    - giis 13y ago
      I use ad-blocker+ on chrome. Probably it helped me to overcome these issues.
  - iso8859-1 13y ago
    Rather than following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard like most Unix-like systems, each program in a GoboLinux system has its own subdirectory tree, where all of its files (including settings specific for that program) may be found. Thus, a program "Foo" has all of its specific files and libraries in /Programs/Foo. http://www.gobolinux.org/ http://www.gobolinux.org/
    - JetSpiegel 13y ago
      Great! /s "I heard you liked DLL Hell, so we ported it to Linux"
      - iso8859-1 13y ago
        Separate directories do not imply conflicting versions colliding (which I guess it what you refer to?). In fact, I'd say is it less likely. Can you eloborate?
  - ColinWright 13y ago
    I'll bet it's fine if you have ad-blocker and similar, but it's atrocious, bordering on unreadable, if you don't. If you write for the web, and you care about your readership, you need to look at your own pages with browsers they are likely to use, and no extensions. And with extensions as well, because while some of your readers will use vanilla browsers with no extensions, some will have heavily personalized setups. Don't take it for granted that what you see is what everyone sees. It's just not true.
- slashdotaccount 13y ago
  If you didn't enable CSS it would look fine. I certainly don't entrust the presentation of content to web designers, that would be idiotic.
erpellan 13y ago
It's bordering on unreadable at the moment. Turns out you can't just slam a bunch of advertising markup on top of a web page and assume it all works fine. Who knew.
mdf 13y ago
The man pages[1][2][3] for the hier command on various BSDs are also worthwhile reads if you want to familiarize yourself with *NIX directory structures in general. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier [2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier [3] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier
- hiphopyo 13y ago
  Absolutely gorgeous. [2] in particular.
bbanyc 13y ago
A lot of this is driven by historical concerns of large institutional installations that don't really apply to most Linux users today. We're set up for the possibility that /usr is a read-only NFS share for use by multiple processor architectures. This is an increasingly rare scenario, but it's the justification for why /var was split from /usr and /usr/share was split from /usr/lib.

100 points by giis 13y ago

rational_indian 13y ago

A good introduction to the Linux file system hierarchy for the uninitiated. Thanks for sharing.

rodgerd 13y ago
Sort of. It doesn't really cover the unification of / and /usr binaries and libraries that's ongoing.
- runiq 13y ago
  Look at the date, the article is from 2009.
- kzrdude 13y ago
  That's only Fedora/RedHat though. I'd love to see that in Debian, but there is no movement towards it yet.

dsyph3r 13y ago

The design of the website is awful. Its very difficult to read the content.

bhauer 13y ago
I am not a fan of the Linux default directory structure. But this web site's design? I see black sans-serif paragraphs of text on a white background. Plain, yes. Maybe a bit too plain. But awful?
- dsyph3r 13y ago
  That's not what I see... http://oi57.tinypic.com/205rx9i.jpg http://oi57.tinypic.com/205rx9i.jpg
  - erpellan 13y ago
    When overlay adverts go horribly, horribly wrong...
    - JetSpiegel 13y ago
      That image is from tinypic, that's even worse!
  - giis 13y ago
    I use ad-blocker+ on chrome. Probably it helped me to overcome these issues.
- iso8859-1 13y ago
  Rather than following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard like most Unix-like systems, each program in a GoboLinux system has its own subdirectory tree, where all of its files (including settings specific for that program) may be found. Thus, a program "Foo" has all of its specific files and libraries in /Programs/Foo. http://www.gobolinux.org/ http://www.gobolinux.org/
  - JetSpiegel 13y ago
    Great! /s "I heard you liked DLL Hell, so we ported it to Linux"
    - iso8859-1 13y ago
      Separate directories do not imply conflicting versions colliding (which I guess it what you refer to?). In fact, I'd say is it less likely. Can you eloborate?
- ColinWright 13y ago
  I'll bet it's fine if you have ad-blocker and similar, but it's atrocious, bordering on unreadable, if you don't. If you write for the web, and you care about your readership, you need to look at your own pages with browsers they are likely to use, and no extensions. And with extensions as well, because while some of your readers will use vanilla browsers with no extensions, some will have heavily personalized setups. Don't take it for granted that what you see is what everyone sees. It's just not true.
slashdotaccount 13y ago
If you didn't enable CSS it would look fine. I certainly don't entrust the presentation of content to web designers, that would be idiotic.

erpellan 13y ago

It's bordering on unreadable at the moment. Turns out you can't just slam a bunch of advertising markup on top of a web page and assume it all works fine. Who knew.

mdf 13y ago

The man pages[1][2][3] for the hier command on various BSDs are also worthwhile reads if you want to familiarize yourself with *NIX directory structures in general. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier [2] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=hier [3] http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?hier

hiphopyo 13y ago
Absolutely gorgeous. [2] in particular.

bbanyc 13y ago

A lot of this is driven by historical concerns of large institutional installations that don't really apply to most Linux users today. We're set up for the possibility that /usr is a read-only NFS share for use by multiple processor architectures. This is an increasingly rare scenario, but it's the justification for why /var was split from /usr and /usr/share was split from /usr/lib.