New Linux User

6 opinions for EXPLAIN: The GNU/Linux File Structure.

• Mark Rais
  Feb 16, 2006 at 4:16 pm

  Greetings! Yes this is a great link and certainly beneficial for those who’ve not had some insight as to the use of those oft confusing directories.

  However, a word of caution that on some flavors such as Novell/SuSe the primary applications will be delivered from the /opt directory.

  This is very important since /opt becomes an integral directory for such flavors and is not noted in the article you link to.

  Just my 2 cents,
  mark

• Jon
  Feb 16, 2006 at 5:00 pm

  Thanks Mark. This is exactly the type of comment that should be connected to this entry. Then, when people end up here from Google, they have the benefit of it.

  Thanks!

• mark rais
  Feb 19, 2006 at 6:39 pm

  Greetings Jon,

  It appears this link may now be down. Wouldn’t want some of your readers to encounter an issue.

  just an fyi

• Jon
  Feb 20, 2006 at 10:57 am

  THanks Mark,

  It seems to work for me. Perhaps a little glitch that has passed?

• shev
  May 11, 2006 at 12:28 am

  The traditional directory layout is ugly.
  Gobolinux layout is better.
  But what importantly it is doing is:

  - Give the user the ability to choose between traditional and non-traditional.
  Other distributions dont make this difference.

  I myself am using a hybrid system right now, the smaller apps go into my $PROGRAM directory.

  I think this is better because its more beautiful and logical.

• Jon
  May 11, 2006 at 5:25 am

  Thanks Shev. It is all about choice, isn’t it :)

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