Novell & Open Source

[Stephen Shaw]

holy crap I stuck a nerve.  In case you didn't notice the fact that I 
said I understand and not  I know for fact. 
however, I'll do some research and post it to the list.

Mitch Anderson wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 21:43 -0700, Stephen Shaw wrote:
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>> From what I understand suse is more compliant with the LSB than most 
>>distros
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>most being?  RedHat? Mandrake? far as I know, those are the only other
>disto's that are even trying to be compliant with the standard.  Yet
>SuSE is the only one (out of all the distro's I can think of, again as
>far as I know) that puts gnome and kde in /opt.  I don't recall the LSB
>asking for Gnome and KDE to be put in /opt specifically, so with *every*
>(again as far as I know) other distro putting them under /usr, I would
>say SuSE is the least *standard*...
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>The FHS(LSB requires the FHS) can be read here:
>http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
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>mitch
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