Re: [wlug] Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" released
Any ideas where all the files from /bin /sbin /lib and /lib64 will be moved to? seems quite a dramatic change ... I always thought that seemed like quite logical layout. I can see many a broken shell script in Fedora's future.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wlug] Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" released From: Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> Date: Wed, May 30, 2012 8:56 am To: wlug <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>
"The GNOME Shell is now able to run without 3D acceleration. A major restructuring of the filesystem sees the demise of the /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories."
--source: http://h-online.com/-1585486
Good news for users of older hardware that doesn't support 3D acceleration, since Ubuntu seems to drop Unity 2D support starting with 12.10: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5OTA
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Any ideas where all the files from /bin /sbin /lib and /lib64 will be moved to? seems quite a dramatic change ... I always thought that seemed like quite logical layout. I can see many a broken shell script in Fedora's future.
The distinction between executables for the root user and other mere mortals has become blurred over time and apparently, one can no longer really boot up with an empty /usr. More information here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove In the referenced article "What's new in Fedora 17" (http://h-online.com/-1585254), there is the following information on what's happening to the obsolete directories: "In Fedora 17, all of the files which were previously located in these directories are now in similarly named sub-directories of /usr/. To ensure backwards compatibility, the deleted directories have been replaced with symbolic links that point to the new directories." Shouldn't break any scripts therefore. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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