Thread: N900 Dead in 4 days
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2009-12-28 , 16:56
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#18
I've read and understand the FHS as well Bratag. I built my own linux off of it using that and the LFS documents.

However, almost no mainstream distribution actually follows the guide 100%.

Solaris and FreeBSD have different filesystem structures, Solaris using things /export, which is mostly non-existent in any other Unix-related operating system. It also isn't even in the "almighty" FHS.

TLDP also has a "standard": http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html.. which is similar - but not identical to the FHS.

I think debian sums it up best:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html
The location of all installed files and directories must comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.3, with the exceptions noted below, and except where doing so would violate other terms of Debian Policy.
In short - with pretty much all linux:
We follow this Standard..... except when we don't.
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