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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux Directory Structure - FHS (lemm.ee)

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[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Is there a version of this that wasn't awkwardly resized?

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Distros should ship with this this under /readme.jpg

[–] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Holy shit. I’ve been wondering about this for so long

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

FHS is an absolute dumpster fire that would never be dreamed up in this day and age

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Don't forget /auto, for things that get automatically mounted when you first access them (autofs)

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

The icon for media reminds me of a bidet on a floor plan.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

New knowledge. Thanks.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I rarely spot /srv in the wild.

I use /data for local server data.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty sure openmediavault uses it, but that's the only one I've seen

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

it usually seems more like whatever distro doing things however they want rather than following any standard

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