From: Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu)
Date: 10/01/92


From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: Official version?
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:19:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.144248.11602@cc.tut.fi> jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep29.183716.15204@muddcs.claremont.edu>
>jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>>
>>There might be an official 'Linux 1.0' with all sorts of goodies and a
>>sane distribution, and there might not. People are trying to organize
>>things, but it is a giant undertaking.
>
>Flame war on /usr/local is not organizing.

I never said it was. Please do not try and put words in my mouth.

>So, is the official directory structure decided yet?

No.

>Can we have the results of standardizing group (which now is
>non-active)?

Sure, browse through pub/Linux/linux-standards on sunsite.unc.edu to
follow the discussions on the Standards and see how things were left.
Michael Johnson has posted his directory.7, which describes the
directory standard. For a look at the 'device standard', my
/dev/MAKEDEV is consistent with the MCC release and the 'official'
root/boot disk combination, so it could be considered a de facto
standard.

>What they made?
>Did they just waste time?

For the most part, not much got accomplished. The final decisions
still eventually lay with the people who put together the
distributions.

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