When I first was learning unix, I was far too impressed to criticize – after all, here was a operating system that made it possible for hundreds of users to share, mostly peacefully, a computer!<\/p>\n
Now that I’ve been a unix administrator for a while – and administered a number of flavors of unix – I do have a few, um, questions about it.<\/p>\n
The biggest one is WHY are all the configuration files in a directory called etc? Wouldn’t conf or config make more sense?<\/p>\n
Actually, one can apply that criticism to \/var – wouldn’t \/data make more sense?<\/p>\n
Of course, mine is not to reason why. At this point, changing would be painful – all of the directories are hardcoded in thousands of different applications.<\/p>\n
If I were immortal, I would want to write a operating system at some point. Being limited to – at least on the surface of things – a 100,000 hour MTBF makes me inclined to just be grateful that other people have put together such nice ones.\u00a0 (Even though I complain bitterly about them, I love Linux and am pretty fond of 2000 and even XP. Give me another ten years and I’ll probably like Vista. As usual, I’m not yet running it anywhere. I should get a workstation with vmware set up so I can play with five or six operating systems painlessly.. )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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