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Fedore Core 3 out - with a hillarious “notable” change

If you want to get a good laugh, just read this carefully. (taken from a RedHat Magazine article, some markup added)

…Being more FHS compliant, Fedora Core 3 now includes the /srv directory. The rationale behind this directory is to store site-specific data that is served by the system: where the httpd, cvs, and ftp services store their data, for example. This directory is not used for this purpose in Fedora Core 3. It is just provided for FHS compliance…

This means that in order to increase your own Linux box FHS compliancy, all you need to do is type “mkdir /srv”. Or perhaps RedHat folks want to put down the FHS folks (as if someone who spends all that time coming up with filesystem layout proposals needs someone else to put them down…)

On the other hand, if you want to get annoyed, and you are a current user of Fedora looking forward to an upgrade, try this one (from the same article):

Media is now mounted in /media, rather than /mnt as previously done. So, a typical CDROM drive gets mounted into /media/cdrom, and a typical CD-RW drive is mounted as /media/cdrw.

P.S. Don’t get me wrong - I am already getting my FC3 download from the torrent.

Add comment November 19th, 2004

Make a ThinkPad accept any MiniPCI Card - avoid 1802 error

If after installing your new miniPCI card into your ThinkPad laptop you get an 1802 error at boot, here is the solution.

Continue Reading 31 comments November 18th, 2004