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On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:24, george wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2007 19:45, Michael Mortimore wrote: > > you could look at gobolinux to see if/how they manage to install it in > > /Programs/kde/kde3.4 or wherever. > > I have never heard of Gobolinux before so, curiosity roused, I had a gander > at the web site, www.gobolinux.org . Very interesting. A distro that > simplifies the directory structure. > > A large problem that I have found coming to linux is finding where things > are, because the directory structures follow unix which has evolved over > the last 40(?) years rather than been planned. Gobolinux overcomes this to > large extent. I can see the pro's OK but does anyone know of any major > con's? > > George Its basically breaking a standard. While you may not see any sense in that standard its there somewhere and people who really program the system understand it. You'll end up like microsoft users - cant be bothered to actually work out whats really required of a problem so you go for the simpler option. Later on you discover you cant actually move on from where you are easily. Ignore metadata at your peril! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html