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Rage Against the File System Standard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

pwagland submitted a rant by Mosfet on file system standards. I think he's sort of over simplified the whole issue, and definitely wrongly assigned blame, but it definitely warrants discussion. Why does my /usr/bin need 1500 files in it? Is it the fault of lazy distribution package management? Or is it irrelevant?

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  1. Ah, yes... by Corgha · · Score: 5, Funny

    /opt/LINWgrep/bin/grep
    /opt/LINWsed/bin/sed
    /opt/LINWdate/bin/date....

  2. Re:Translucent file system by brunes69 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait until KDE 3 / Gnome 2 com out with Xrender suport, and we can all have translucent filesystems!

    HAR HAR!

  3. Re:he's pretty far off base by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Funny

    did you look at HER Site? he is a SHE and from the ooks of it she likes to get freekaaaayyy :-)......pretty damn hot for a geek girl.

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  4. Re:he's pretty far off base by Zocalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, you can get freekaaaayyy if you want, but you might want to read Daniel's about page first... ;)

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  5. Re:he's pretty far off base by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 2, Funny

    I did ;-) rarooowwww

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  6. Why windows doesnt... by Bazman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The reason windows apps can happily install binaries in any directory is because they then go install their shortcuts in the Start menu, or the desktop. Of course if you want to run one from a command line interpreter you're pretty stuck.

    So now my windows Start menu has 1000 items in it, but at least they are arranged hierarchically in 850 vendor program groups...

    Baz

  7. You can tell it is going too far when.... by GISboy · · Score: 2, Funny

    you see something like this:

    /usr/local/bin/games/educational/for/kids/readin g/ about/see/spot/run/page1/paragraph1

    (Yes, I suppose when I use turn signals *backing out* of the driveway does qualify as anal retentive).

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