First, let me just say that I am nervous even starting this topic, since my experience with Linux has only been for a couple of years, whereas there are many, many others here (and elsewhere) who have ...

Efforts to standardize directory structure and file placement for Linux systems go back to the earliest days of distributions. The Filesystem Standard (FSSTND) 1.0 was released in 1994; it was ...

What are these weird directories, and why are they there? If you are new to the Linux command line, you may find yourself wondering why there are so many unusual directories, what they are there for, ...

The future of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) has been under discussion for some time; now, Neal Gompa has announced that the FHS is "hosted and stewarded" by Freedesktop.org. For those who ...

If you've ever been curious enough to look through your system's root directory ("/"), you may have found yourself a little overwhelmed. Most of the three-letter directory names don't tell you much ...