Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have a terminology cheat sheet nor was that my major struggle.  My
major struggle is the file system and what the different folders off of the
root are for.  I have reviewed a number of explanations of what the
different folders are for, but none of them are turning on lights as bright
as I'd hoped.  Anybody have a definition for the IBM i mind personality?

For example, here is a subset of root folders that I don't know how to
logically separate out in my mind:

/bin
/boot
/etc
/initrd
/lib
/opt
/proc
/root
/sbin
/srv
/sys
/usr
/var


Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Lowary, Jim <jlowary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Glad to see a list like this, although just as it formed I was slammed
> with a couple of projects to get done last week and couldn’t even look at
> the posts.
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> I have played around with Ubuntu a little just to broaden my horizons
> loading it on an old laptop  and then just recently creating a second
> partition on windows PC at home.  I find that terminology is the killer for
> me, anyone know where to find a cheat sheet on terminology?  I’ll look
> something up and find out how to do it (ie: like getting my wireless card
> working under Ubuntu) only to find that everyone is speaking  Greek not Geek
> ;-) or maybe it’s vise/versa.  Hopefully if I can find the time the
> terminology will come.
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> Anyway good to see this list as a resource to draw from if needed.
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> Cheers,
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> -- Jim Lowary