[Nottingham] For info Fedora 17 out today

[Mike Martin]

On 30 May 2012 08:31, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/05/12 23:12, Martin wrote:
>> Notable points for me are the /usr change, the kvm sandboxing and
>> associated virtualisation improvements, and the selinux improvements.
> Yup, saw the info on the sandboxing and thought that looked interesting.
>  Not sure I'd have much use for it, but I am about to try Fedora 17
> under a VM to see if I prefer it to Ubuntu 12.04.  We shall see.
>
> The changing of the file structure is something that is going to be
> coming to all GNU/Linux at some point I think.  We no longer need the
> older divisions that were mostly determined by disc size AIUI.
>
> --
> Jason Irwin
>
TBH I can see both sides, but really the distinction between /usr/bins
and bins  gets arbitrary on occasion.

Over time so much has been loaded into /usr that used to be elsewhere.

I think the reason for the "old" system was that /usr was not
neccesarily mounted initially and was commonly on a seperate
partition/network drive, so bin/sbin was for programs that were needed
to boot

May be wrong though

Anyway for 90+% of users they aren't going to see a difference