Introduction Next Previous Contents 1. FHS version 2.0 has been released but there are still a few issues to be dealt with and even longer before this new standard will have an impact on actual distributions. FHS is not yet used in any distributions but Debian has announced they will use it in Debian 2.1 which is their next distribution. It is also a good idea to read the Linux Installation guides thoroughly and if you are using a PC system, which I guess the majority still does, you can find much relevant and useful information in the FAQs for the newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware especially for storage media. First of all we need a bit of legalese.
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