Personally, the biggest thing that I believe is important on a distribution is good documentation on where files are placed. Having said that, I think it is past time for the distributions to discuss this and commit to following a standard (or two). Certainly there will be differences in such things as init scripts. After all Slackware uses a BSD style init (more or less) while RedHat uses a SystemV ini (more or less). There are advantages to both of them, and that isn't the point. The thing is that RedHat does place some config files in strange places. If there was one place to put a given file it would make Linux overall stronger. There could still be room for each to do its thing for improvement. (For instance once you say that all init scripts will reside in rc.d you can choose to follow the redhat method of a directory for each run level and one for the actual scripts. Or you could decide to place them all in the /etc/rc.d dir.) Actually, documentation is the biggest weakness I see in Linux. The fact is that much of the documentation is great if you already know what your doing. Some of it is great, and some is lousy. Sometimes knowing whre to look though can be a major task in the first place. One master document giving direction on where to look for all network functions would be nice. One covering all disk subsystems would also go a long way. -- Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net ------------------ Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. Alfred North Whitehead
