* Andy Roffe (aroffe@e-corp.co.uk) [20000406 14:51]:
improvement. Here we are again with 6.4 soon to be on the market (the german version - is in the shops already)and nothing on the ftp-site (just a basic 6.4 iso eval would do).
It does take some time to prepare the ftp tree as some parts of the Distribution have to be left out. This needs manpower that's first put into creating the CD distributions. Besides, let us earn some money with the CDs, will you? ;-))
And why is the dir layout different on SuSE?
Because we are trying to follow the LHS (Linux Hierarchy Standard) as close
as possible (and no distribution is closer to it than SuSE Linux). For
instance, the LHS mandates that /etc shall contain no executables (which
includes shell scripts), so we created /sbin/init.d and moved the init
scripts there.
Out of IMO obvious reasons I'll refrain to comments on positioning and
marketing and let others comment on that ;-)
Philipp
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Philipp Thomas