Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how different Debian is?

["Edward Ing" <ingal@home.com>]

Where can I find the FSSTD, and FHS standard?
And what do they stand for?

Edward Ing
-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Blevins <mblevin@debian.org>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 24, 1998 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: I am quite familiar with redhat, but I am wondering how
different Debian is?


>Edward Ing wrote:
>> Are the boot scripts different? In different locations?
>
> In general, the scripts located in /etc/rc.d/init.d on Redhat are
> in /etc/init.d on Debian.  Both are sysv-based, so there is not
> a radical difference like you will find with BSD-based systems like
> Stampede or Slackware.
>
>> Are directories in different places and named differently?
>
> They will mostly be the same.  Debian adheres to the FSSTD, although
> soon will switch to the FHS for a directory/file location standard.
> So, Debian will differ from Redhat only in places where Redhat diverges
> from the standard.
>
>> Are people working on a standard linux.
>
> As soon as all GNU/Linux users switch to Debian, we will have a standard
> Linux.  So, yes... we are working on this. ;)
>
> -Mitch
>
>
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