From: Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu)
Date: 09/29/92


From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: Obsolete article, obsolete thread :-) (Re: No /usr/local please)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:37:16 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.131420.26687@cc.tut.fi> jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia) writes:

I didn't really want to follow up to this thread, but I thought some
useful information could come out of it, so I did. Sigh.

>Is Linus Torvalds the person who finally (eventually) decides what
>directory structure the official version uses?

Not really, and I very much doubt that he wants to be the 'one person'
who decides what to do. Lately, since the Standards list has died,
Owen LeBlanc and I have tried to confer on various things we thought
it was important to keep uniform among the releases, but that's about
it.

>Will there be an official system (by the way)? (Linux 1.0?)
>What is the biggest problems in making it?

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.

The biggest problem, as always, is time. Most of us have jobs or go
to school. Linux is just a hobby.

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