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anarchist
Guest
good move - for normal users. too many directories in root (with odd names) was confusing. i wish these changes come soon.
Ubuntu to rename top level directories?
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vista__n00b
Broken In
I really don't understand why people are so against this new naming scheme. Its not like Ubuntu is reinventing the wheel or changing something so dramatic that everything will become chaos and fall apart.
People who are saying that "I was used to old ways so it should stay the way it is" are giving the exact same excuse that Windows users gave when they were shown a free operating system which could do most of their daily tasks. You people should be happy that a major distro is coming ahead and is trying to make this hideousness (naming scheme) into something right. In the end if you people don't like it then all you have to do is to make soft links to your original directories...is that too hard?
Its just a simple naming scheme guys...take a control of your emotions
People who are saying that "I was used to old ways so it should stay the way it is" are giving the exact same excuse that Windows users gave when they were shown a free operating system which could do most of their daily tasks. You people should be happy that a major distro is coming ahead and is trying to make this hideousness (naming scheme) into something right. In the end if you people don't like it then all you have to do is to make soft links to your original directories...is that too hard?
Its just a simple naming scheme guys...take a control of your emotions
hullap
Cyborg Agent
+1000000000000000000I really don't understand why people are so against this new naming scheme. Its not like Ubuntu is reinventing the wheel or changing something so dramatic that everything will become chaos and fall apart.
People who are saying that "I was used to old ways so it should stay the way it is" are giving the exact same excuse that Windows users gave when they were shown a free operating system which could do most of their daily tasks. You people should be happy that a major distro is coming ahead and is trying to make this hideousness (naming scheme) into something right. In the end if you people don't like it then all you have to do is to make soft links to your original directories...is that too hard?
Its just a simple naming scheme guys...take a control of your emotions
BUT i also agree with Rahim,
Krazy_About_Technology
Padawan
Although the new structure is a little easier to read and understand without reading manuals, it can be confusing for long time users who are used to previous system, plus it could introduce compatibility problems with older apps. In my openion, the symlinks for new names idea would be great for now.
FilledVoid
Who stole my Alpaca!
Personally I don't mind as long as Ubuntu doesn't become a trendsetter for other distros 
. A company with a questionable QA practice becoming a trendsetter is like a disaster waiting to happen.
. A company with a questionable QA practice becoming a trendsetter is like a disaster waiting to happen.
mediator
Technomancer
Nah, I don't think it will become a trendsetter. The default permission system in Ubuntu is pathetic. Its ok for noobies and emigrants from the windows world. It seems they r making it look more windowish like over the time. I guess the change wud be almost transparent for the noob users neways who r chained to the home directory. But I hope it is not aimed for servers. Hell, we'll have to operate on "/system/config/named.conf" for DNSs instead of simple "etc" ones?? That wud be quite tedious.
DigitalDude
PhotonAttack
sorry I was blunt...
I was talking about managing my server through SSH terminal
cos of the latency its annoying to type long stuff
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Use bash completion. Why was that created?
I always have a screen session running at home with irssi, elinks and mutt running within it. I ssh in from work or elsewhere attach the screen session and do my chatting, check mails, configure my systems. I find bash completion really helpful then. But, I still don't see why would new path names be a problem for ssh connections too, even with higher latencies.
I always have a screen session running at home with irssi, elinks and mutt running within it. I ssh in from work or elsewhere attach the screen session and do my chatting, check mails, configure my systems. I find bash completion really helpful then. But, I still don't see why would new path names be a problem for ssh connections too, even with higher latencies.
DigitalDude
PhotonAttack
^^^^
I just use putty and do some small tasks occasionally on the server... for the major stuff there is lxadmin control panel dont want to install stuff that I'm not familiar with and screw it off 
I feel the latency is annoying.. typing and seeing the text after sometime is in the SSH window is awkward for me
but the server hosted in singapore used to have less latency like around 50ms which is gr8... but suddenly 2 months ago I was getting more ping in sg servers than the ones in US... I did watever I can but helpless.. airtel ppl say its prob with DNS... the datacenter ppl say its problem with ISP routing.. I went mad and finally cancelled the sg server now all I have is US servers with 400ms+ latencies
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I just use putty and do some small tasks occasionally on the server... for the major stuff there is lxadmin control panel
dont want to install stuff that I'm not familiar with and screw it off I feel the latency is annoying.. typing and seeing the text after sometime is in the SSH window is awkward for me
but the server hosted in singapore used to have less latency like around 50ms which is gr8... but suddenly 2 months ago I was getting more ping in sg servers than the ones in US... I did watever I can but helpless.. airtel ppl say its prob with DNS... the datacenter ppl say its problem with ISP routing.. I went mad and finally cancelled the sg server
now all I have is US servers with 400ms+ latencies _
mediator
Technomancer
Even so, but the bash completion doesn't work with shell scripts, crons, editing confs etc. U can use copy/paste though, but it certainly becomes tedious. May be thats why they have '/etc/named.conf' as a shortcut pointing towards the actual '/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf' , I dunno. But I prefer the etc (former) one. Its the same situation, where we use 'ping SITE' instead of writing the complete path '/bin/ping SITE'. But neways thats their philosophy......Noob friendliness.
, I dunno. But I prefer the etc (former) one. Its the same situation, where we use 'ping SITE' instead of writing the complete path '/bin/ping SITE'. But neways thats their philosophy......Noob friendliness.
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