Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem

jfruhlinger writes "Even Linux's most passionate partisans will admit that its filesystem, which stashes vital files in a variety of arcane directories, can be baffling to users. The developers at the Fedora project want to cut the Gordian knot and consolidate all executables into /usr/bin and all libraries into /usr/lib or /usr/lib64. One downside: this system would conflict with the standards developed by the Linux Standard Base, or the (rarely used) Filesystem Hierarchy Standard."

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Re:When do we get compression?

[hairyfeet]

So a user states a simple need, one filled by the competitor for a decade, and in less than five posts he gets insulted before getting the classic use esoteric workarounds followed by you giving him a snarky version of the also classic you don't need that, and you wonder why Linux is stuck at 1%?

Waste your mod points all you want but this is a truth that needs to be spoken, it is THIS, this right here, that keeps Linux in last place. Somewhere along the way making F/LOSS accessible to the masses was thrown to the wayside in favor of the "FLOSSie club" as I call it, where You must prove your "worthy" of using the gifts the great Torvalds and RMS have bestowed upon thee. In this club anything that makes F/LOSS more useful, easier, and friendlier? why that is bad, its "rampant consumerism" or "dumbing down" and anything that makes Linux more complex, obtuse, or fiddly is "smarter" and "more powerful". I have actually been told by a member of the FLOSSie club when i pointed out that Linux was too CLI heavy for my consumers "to make them embrace the power of CLI" like its the Goddamn force!

Never before in all of history has things been more favorable to your OS in the consumer market, you are being given multiple great gifts yet are just pissing them away. You have Windows 8, or "Ballmer's Folly" that is gonna make Vista look like XP, you have nearly 400 million laptops and netbooks and desktops that are gonna be EOLed that are frankly insanely overpowered for what the vast majority do with computers, and finally you have a populace that lives and breathes online. while the business market still has tons of proprietary apps if your OS can get to FaceBook, play Farmville and Angry Birds you have covered more than 80% of the home users right there!

But what do you do with these great gifts? do you ask the fundamental questions, which for an OS that has been around 20 years and is still lower than the margin for error shouldn't even have to be uttered? Do you ask "What am I doing wrong that my competitors are doing right?". Nope, because thanks to this new "club" mentality those users are "noobs" and not worthy of the usage of your "blessed" OS, they aren't worthy of joining the clic. Instead you expect the entire planet to do things YOUR way, arrogant much?

A wise person once said "You know what the definition of insanity is? Its doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result" and that is EXACTLY what the community has been doing. Insane release schedule, broken drivers, none of that matter because the users will embrace the power of CLI and learn "the Unix way" even though Unix was NEVER supposed to be a consumer OS and died out over a decade ago!

I wise man would look at those linux TMs and others on that site and learn from them. Every one of them is based on the constant stream of excuses and accusations thrown by those in the club. I'm sure if one were to look at it one would see the same ones being used here over and over AND OVER. But numbers don't lie folks, never before in history have things been more favorable to your OS but everyone from Walmart to the little shops like mine treat your OS like the plague, why? Do you honestly believe Steve Ballmer is giving us all Swiss Bank accounts?

No it is because you do NOT listen. you don't listen to the users, you don't listen to the OEMs, you don't listen to the little retailers like me, or even the giant OEMs like Dell who has to run their own repos at not inconsiderable expense and just for a teeny tiny subset of hardware, simply to have functional drivers. look, listen, learn from your competitors and offer a better product. Its business 101 folks but if you continue to treat Linux as an exclusive club instead? you have nobody to blame whe