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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Member since:2005-12-09
Member since:2005-07-24
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.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-11-05
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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2005-07-06
LSB has nothing to do with directories. If you're thinking of the FHS, it's rather more FHS-compliant to put the DEs in /usr. This is what we (Mandriva) and Debian do at least, I'm not sure about Ubuntu and FC.