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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy
Date: 10 Dec 1995 09:35:00 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: mandtbac@news.abo.fi's message of 7 Dec 1995 18:30:32 GMT
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In article <4a7bs8$cap@josie.abo.fi> mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) writes:
Michael L. VanLoon, in <MICHAELV.95Dec6214734@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>:
>The Linux Documentation Project was a necessity because the Linux
>directory structure was turning into such a convoluted and
>self-conflicting mess.
You're confusing the Linux Doc Project with the Linux File System
Standard (FSSTND). Hope this helps.
Uh, yeah. That's what I meant. ;-)
>BSD had an established and well thought out directory hierarchy before
>Linux even existed.
Well, you can't rightly expect Linux to have had a standardized
directory tree before there was such a thing as Linux, after all.
No, but people have been pointing to how wonderful the new Linux File
System Standard is, and wondering why BSD doesn't have such a
document.
My point was that the BSD file system was never screwed up in the
first place. And has certainly been coherently organized as long as
Linux has been around.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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