Re: Pine in Debian [Was:Debian vs Red Hat???]
Vitux writes:
> Just a pitiful newbie wondering: I thought all *nix'es were supposed to
> use basically the same filesystem-structure.
The various Linux distributions are far more standardized in this then the
various Unices ever were.
> How come then, that Debian has proprietary placement of files?
It doesn't.
> ...isn't that part of the idea with *nix; to have a standard for the fs,
> which all flavors adhere to?
Linux has a file system hierarchy standard (See
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs). Debian adheres closely to it. Some
other distributions don't.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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