[techtalk] Differences between linux distributions

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Beverly,
  What I meant by that (paths) was the proposed FSSTND. RH even publishes
it in their manuals and then deviates from it. It is a matter of personal
choice and from that vantage point I can understand. However, what keeps
poeple from easily following along is reading docs about things like
apache and trying to following their pathing structure on you RH box. In
general it's confusing and IMHO keeps linux out of the big picture for a
lot of software manufactures. I mean look at RH, it's like they are Linux.
Every major app builder is announcing support for RH and not "linux".
Subtle point but it makes an impact in the views of others.

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Beverly Guillermo wrote:

> The thing is that you can configure your system to have the "standardized"
> installation or not.  If it's not a system program, I generally place new
> programs in /usr/local  ... I think it's a matter of personal choice. =)
> 
> Beverly
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karolina Lindqvist wrote:
> 
> > moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > Another example, Apache by default
> > > stores most things in /usr/local, RH is in /etc/, same with Mandrake,
> > > Caldera (I believe goes with Apache). The list goes on. 
> > 
> > Of course, my question is -- why? With linux it was a chance of having
> > a united environment, after the bad experience of 10 zillion different
> > unix version, all he same but all different. :-(
> > And now the same thing is happening with linux.
> > 
> > It appears to be hidden forces that want to make things so complicated
> > that they don't work anymore...
> > 
> > -- Karolina
> > 
> > 
> > 
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