Quote Originally Posted by Jerunk
I'm just curious what some of the file tree equivalents are in linux compared to Windows.

I've gathered the /home/ is basically a My Documents section,
Well /home is ALOT more than My Documents. /home contains specific configurations for users as 'dot files' or files that start w/ a period i.e. .mozilla (contains your bookmarks, plugins etc) and .xmms (contains your xmms skin choce et. al.).

Since this is a true multi-user system most directories will not be writable by users.

Most application configuration files (i.e. /etc/apache/httpd.conf or /etc/samba/smb.conf) are located in /etc.

If you want to know where an executable is located (xmms for example)simply issue:
Code:
which xmms
/usr/bin/xmms
Different distros do things differently!

Here's another link:
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-06/newbies_01.html