From: Jason Creighton <androflux@...>
Date: 2003-06-12T11:18:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Rubyx (provisionally named) linux distro. Made by and run by Ruby

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 05:28:36 +0900
Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> wrote:

> The FHS is the way it is mainly because of the way old unix systems used 
> to be setup (disks), and with multiple users on terminal all using one 
> machine. This isn't very realistic anymore. Machines are (by and large) 
> either standard-alone rack mounted web/mail/game servers, or on someones 
> desktop with one intermittent user. Harddrives are enormous, reliable 
> and almost free. I've tried to rationalise the filesystem a bit (not 
> much) such that it reflects reality better, without breaking expected 
> functionality
> 
> It's not much really. I've introduced /pkg which contains all the 
> packages, each in it's own directory. And I've collapsed the /, /usr, 
> /usr/local directories. A few other minor tweaks

Let me confirm this: By "collasped the /, /usr, /usr/local directories", there is no /usr directory in RubyX? It's all in /?

Jason Creighton