[SC.LUG] Folder names for a Linux desktop user

[Geoff]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:00:11 -0000
Richard Pineger <richard.pineger at kudos-idd.com> wrote:

> What are all the folder names in Linux supposed to mean

The exemplar is at :

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

but most distros seem to depart from it to some degree.

> and where should I put new applications like
> OpenOffice1.1.0? I put it in /usr/share/bin - is that
> acceptable or am I being a philistine? 

I think that the beauty of linux is that it is up to you.

Geoff