OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha1 has been released. "Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes are: GNOME has been moved to /usr (lease do test especially updates from older distributions); KDE updated to KDE 3.5.6; Linux kernel updated to 2.6.20 (no Xen support enabled for now); pattern for minimal text install; update of OpenOffice.org to version 2.1.3; the whole distribution is build now with -fstack-protector to better guard against some buffer overflows; and much more."
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RedHat/Fedora based distros, too.
BTW, I thought FHS was part of LSB now?
At any rate, I'm glad to hear about it. Some distros putting things in /opt while others put them in /usr is exactly the sort of silly, purposeless, incompatibility that is bad for Linux, and with no upside.
Though to be honest, I must admit that I did not know that Suse had been doing this.
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You are somewhat incorrect. The FHS preceded the LSB, but the LSB includes the FHS as-is. Proof is in the pudding:
http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Co...
Please make better informed comments to improve the quality of OSNEWS. However, you are correct that it is FHS compliant to put desktop environments under /usr like virtually every distro sans SUSE has been doing for years now.
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I think of /opt as quite logical and I love Solaris for its business oriented approach. Normally /usr is for (programs, libs, etc) that get installed as part of the OS and can be modified as part of OS updates, patches, etc. /usr/local is for customer developed and built packages. They are in /usr/local and an OS upgrade should not tamper with these files. The /opt i smeant for third party (commercial, etc) software that will also not be affected by OS patching/upgrades.
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Thom,
Do you know what the reasoning was behind Novell's decision to move Gnome from "/opt" to the "/usr" directory? Is KDE also being relocated to "/usr"? Are they fazing out the "/opt" directory. Doesn't this go against the LSB certification for where packages are installed? Are other Linux distributions such as RHEL/Fedora going to move Gnome to "/usr"?