On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:12:37PM +0200, Antonio Cangiano mentioned:
> as already said, looking at the early versions of Unix there were lots of
> stuff in the /etc folder, and it was a directory for all the stuff not listed
> in other categorized directories. So "etc" must be intended as the latin "et
> cetera", even if now it is essentially a configuration folder.
I wonder would it break stuff, if we renamed it /conf instead.
Unix needs a bit of a shake up. Too much stuff done in such a way,
because that's the way it always was.
Like, what's this /usr folder for, eh ? When was the last time you needed
to have it mounted over NFS, because your disk was too small for a proper
/ ?
john
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