few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Shawn Starr sstarr at platform.com
Thu Mar 27 17:01:04 UTC 2008


Well, you might know the history, but A lot of newcomers to Linux don't. It's nice and dandy to change things and I fully agree that we shouldn't be beholden to the FHS structure. 

Shawn.

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> [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of 
> Bill Crawford
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop
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> On 27/03/2008, Shawn Starr <sstarr at platform.com> wrote:
> 
> >  This is because /sbin was for 'static' binaries 
> (static-bin). We needed this back when live CDs didn't exist, 
> or if you somehow foobared your GNU libc you had /sbin/sln 
> (static link) to fix a system, now a days you pop in a CD, 
> chroot to the saddened Linux system and repair it easily.  
> You used /sbin as your emergency kit and superuser tools.
> 
> Gee, thanks for the history lesson.
> 
> Of course, if you can find me an example of dynamic linking from the
> time when "sbin" came into existence (other than on VMS) let me know
> ...
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