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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!spasun.tpa.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!news.sandia.gov!sargon.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: Re: Stability: FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Linux ? Message-ID: <1995May9.223237.14206@mdl.sandia.gov> Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM References: <ortegaD7puFE.Dp2@netcom.com> <3o84ia$fa6@newshost.lanl.gov> <1995May3.185147.4535@mdl.sandia.gov> <CHRISB.95May9192110@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 22:32:37 GMT Lines: 35 In article <CHRISB.95May9192110@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb@ind.tansu.com.au> wrote: >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 >>[ ... ] >>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. Didn't this thread get started when someone claimed *BSD having done this was a gratuitous change, and therefore Linux was better in this regard? :-) For those that don't know and to support what Chris is saying, the Linux file system standard currently says that no program should look directly into /usr/share, that symlinks should be provided from other places, such as /etc/termcap. This is where Linux and *BSD differ in this regard (and could go into the Linux/*BSD Differences FAQ since it's one of the few concrete differences that won't change quickly!). --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>