Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

[Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdonagh@gmail.com>]

The FHS doesn't have much to do with what I am talking about. IIRC both 
distros follow the standard, but it doesn't actually mandate much 
beneath /etc.
> > 2. The disarray of configuration files vs centralized system config dir
> >
> > In RH you have /etc/sysconfig. Almost every single system configuration file
> > is under here. In Debian, anything goes.
> >     
>
> I thought Debian[2] was supposed to be FHS[2]-compliant, although i'd
> expect a webserver to have its data files in /srv/www[3] instead of
> /var/www.
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard
> [2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#ETCHOSTSPECIFICSYSTEMCONFIGURATION
> [3] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM
>
> Nuno Magalhães
> LU#484677
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