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From: chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Stability: FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux ?
Date: 09 May 1995 09:21:10 GMT
Organization: Telecom Australia
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In-reply-to: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov's message of Wed, 3 May 1995 18:51:47 GMT

In article <1995May3.185147.4535@mdl.sandia.gov> aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) writes:

>This goes back a number of years I believe (about 6 or
>7 years?).  The story, as I remember, was that Sun, Dec,
>CSRG (and perhaps others) got together to restructure
>the filesystem to support networking, diskless workstations,
>and heterogeneous platforms better.  Out of that came,
>amoung other things, the more familiar /var, a read-only /usr,
>an /etc holding only local config files with the executables
>moved to /usr/etc or /sbin and /usr/sbin, and all
>heterogeneously shareable files moved to /usr/share.
>
>Personally, I was very glad to see it, but disappointed
>to see how long it's taken for some commercial vendors to
>catch on (HP is just now implementing it in HP-UX 10.0).
>It's sad, if it's true, that Linux knows nothing of this,
>but fortunately very easy to fix.

The Linux file system standard, (which is adhered to by almost all, if not
all distributions), has used this layout for quite a long time now.

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Chris Bitmead
chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au