Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th May 2009 19:17 UTC
Ask OSNews is apparently quite popular among you guys; the questions just keep on coming in. Since David took on the first two, we decided to let me handle this one - it's an area I've personally covered before on OSNews: file system layouts. One of our readers, a Linux veteran, studied the GoboLinux effort to introduce a new filesystem layout, and wondered: "Why not adopt the more sensible file system from GoboLinux as the new LSB standard?"
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RE[2]: Some sense coming through
by AdamW on Fri 29th May 2009 05:13
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It reorganized the filesystem. Fine. What did it achieve? What do Gobolinux users achieve that users of other distros can't?
Generally when distros do something really useful...they become very popular and you hear a lot about them. Gobo hasn't. All I ever hear about it is that it reorganized the filesystem. Well, er, good. I don't hear much about how, in concrete terms, that's helped people do things better.
RE[3]: Some sense coming through
by foljs on Fri 29th May 2009 08:02
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It reorganized the filesystem. Fine. What did it achieve? What do Gobolinux users achieve that users of other distros can't?
The achieve a HUGE improvement in one part of the overall UNIX design.
Generally when distros do something really useful...they become very popular and you hear a lot about them.
Really? This is how you think it works? Then Windows must do something really useful...
Gobo hasn't. All I ever hear about it is that it reorganized the filesystem. Well, er, good. I don't hear much about how, in concrete terms, that's helped people do things better.
If it's not apparent to you, go read their documents.
They demonstrate how things get done better with the reorganization.
But even a simple 1% simplification, generalization and elegantization of the overall design is worth it...
RE[2]: Some sense coming through
by AdamW on Fri 29th May 2009 05:14
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would you listen to yourself? rearranging the file system is futile? we're in a GOBO LINUX THREAD. GOBO LINUX. the distro that reorganized the file system successfully. hello???
you guys are saying that FHS is complicated, therefore it is hard for normal people to use, therefore fixing FHS is not worth fixing because file systems are hard to use. holy crap. talk about the the cart in front of the horse.
IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE FILE SYSTEM TO BE EASY TO USE. THAT TRAIT IS VALUABLE TO USERS.
Have you ever changed the engine in your car? Have your ever changed the oil in your car? The tires? Filled up the brake fluid? Filled up the engine oil? The gas tank?
Some of those are easy enough for normal people to do. Some of them are easy enough for nerds to do. The more easy they become, the more value more people get from the product in question.
Have you ever fixed a vacuum cleaner hose with duct tape? Have you ever glued a broken toy back together? Taken apart a pair of headphones to fix them? Tried to take apart a complicated pair of headphones and been UNABLE to fix them?
There is no reason why products should be complicated when they can be fixed to be NOT complicated. Understand yet? Do I need to explain more for you?