basic operations

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 2 19:12:02 UTC 2005


Phet Whore Meyer wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> Ive recently left the dark and moved into linux, i just have this one 
> query for now:
> In windows all programs were installed into a folder called 'Program 
> Files', in linux, where is that equivelant folder? What is it called?
> 
> I know that this question is fairly trivial, is there anywhere else i 
> can go to find out basic information such as this?


http://www.pathname.com/fhs/

This is a proposed Standard for the file system hierarchy on UNIX
like OSs. It contains a rationale for where to put things.

Mike
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