On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 18:50, Toshiro wrote: > Are you sure? Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the idea that (at least a long time > ago :) Slackware has a somewhat different directory layout (especially below > the /etc directory). > > Anyone with recent experience with Slackware can confirm this? (I haven't used > Slackware since 1995)
You idea is dead right, especially in the context of /etc. Last time I used Slackware, it was based on the BSD filesystem. Red Hat/Mandrake use what's called the System V interface definition. In the past, the Posix standard embraced the System V interface definition; one reason for this was that the US government was tired of trying to make stuff work across totally different Unix platforms, it got to be highly inconvenient, to say the least. This inspired the US gov to adopt Posix as a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). As you can imagine this was an inspiration for many Unix vendors to gain a sudden partiality towards System V and Posix. Here's a layout of a BSD filesystem: http://www.washington.edu/R870/img/BSD-dir.gif Layout of System V: http://www.washington.edu/R870/img/V4-dir.gif System V filesystems are very highly organized and use directory structure to great advantage in categorization, which is what it's supposed to be used for. For instance, Sys V /etc uses subdirs to categorize configuration and initialization files. Sys V /dev categorizes device files in subs also as another example. BSD file structures *by contrast* are not very organized. In fact BSD is kind of annoying, if you want to know the truth about it. One thing that used to fry my eggs was the way everything was just dumped into /etc; no subs. Another was the lack of a decent comprehensive organized system of initialization files. I can pretty much nutshell it by saying that the most annoying thing about BSD is that it's not System V. > -- > Toshiro > > ---- > --LX P.S. Trivia -- Richard Stallman coined the term Posix (acronym for Portable Operating Systems Interface for Unix) -- 같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ 같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같같�
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