Introducing /run

Posted Mar 31, 2011 11:24 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463)
In reply to: Introducing /run by pyellman
Parent article: Introducing /run

> I would venture that the cryptic root naming convention is the most
> immediate, visible, and universal barrier to entry for potential new Linux > users. The sad part is, it doesn't have to be so.

You're very wrong. Because for a non-english speaker "bin" is just as alien as "binaries".

And if you don't want to go there, but l10n everything, you'll end up in a _terrible_ mess. See Windows, some fuckwits did that: "Program Files" and "Programme" and "Logiciel".

Cheers
Seegras