On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:50:45 +0100
> pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote:
>
>> On 2012-01-05 13:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > If /usr is local, what really is the point of having it separate
>> > from /? Have you ever found a Linux system in any condition that
>> > could not start just because the stuff in /usr was available? I
>> > haven't.
>> >
>> > Even the split between bin and sbin is arbitrary. It's only there so
>> > that users can take sbin out of PATH and not have the screen
>> > cluttered with endless junk when they tab-tab. It makes much more
>> > sense to me to just have one single bin and lib location and shove
>> > everything into it.
>>
>> I'm not an admin of a large organization so what do I know... but, I
>> still can appreciate the flexibility and "tidyness" it[2] gives you
>> in a multi-user system. I also can see this from a security point of
>> view ("keep the cool toys from the children")... I personally like it
>> for my very local computer as well for the above reasons (flex./tidy).
>>
>> 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>>
>> What you are basically saying is that everything "we" have learned
>> about computer systems should be abolished and we adapt the
>> monolithic, "black box" philosophy of newish systems like Windows.
>> That's how I interpret what you're saying (yes, I do know hardware
>> has changed since the 60'ies but not that radically, IMO)... I tend
>> to think of Unix as "Lego" where you have lots of little bits with
>> clean(ish) interfaces with which you can build whatever you want.dual
>>
>
> Good analogy. I also like building systems from individual Lego bricks.
> I don't like having to build the bricks themselves first :-)
>
> Windows goes too far to the other extreme IMO. That OS seems to have
> largely abandoned control and there's not much in the way of
> structure. Too little control is just as bad as too muchApparently they're going the 'app store' route in Windows 8. -- :wq
