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The future of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) has been under discussion for some time; now,
Neal Gompa has announced
that the FHS is “hosted and stewarded” by Freedesktop.org.

For those who are unaware, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)
is the definition for POSIX operating systems to organize system
and user data. It is broadly adopted by Linux, BSD, and other
operating systems that follow POSIX-like conventions.

See this
page for the specification’s new home.